Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Stephen Segall <segall AT umich.edu>]

It should be noted that the only accurate way people had of measuring  
time of day in biblical times was using the position of the sun.  
Therefore, even if Joshua did tell the sun and moon to stand in place,  
there would be no way for people then to know whether it acutally  
happened. People fighting the battle may have felt that it was  
dragging on indefinitely and wondered when it would end. If afterwards  
they heard that Joshua had told the sun and moon to stay in place,  
they may have believed it happened with no way of determining if it  
were true.
Stephen Segall

Quoting Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>:

> ----- Original Message ----- > On 26 Jan 2009 at 11:20, Yigal Levin wrote:
> > > Dear Bryant,
> > >
> > > You're right, the basic assumption underlying my statement is a
> > > source-critical methodology, which is universally accepted in modern
> > > biblical studies.
> >
> > "Universally" is a pretty strong word in such a context...
> >
> > Dave Washburn
>
> No, it's not. While not all modern scholars accept the specific JEPD
> hypothesis, the methodology is accepted as being valid even by those who do
> not practice it themselves. Except by people whose faith refuses to let them
> do so - which is NOT to say that all people of faith do not accept it, just
> that I know of no one who opposes it who is NOT a "person of faith".
>
> Yigal Levin
>
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