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  • From: JimStinehart AT aol.com
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Joshua City Lists
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:43:53 EST


Karl:
If you would look at p. 12 of Anson Rainey’s “The Sacred Bridge”, you will
see that the traditional scholarly view (at least Rainey’s version of the
traditional scholarly view) is that all 10 towns at Joshua 15: 55-57 were
located exclusively southeast of Hebron, near the Judean Desert, in a part of

Canaan for which there is no evidence in secular history of there ever being
any
real towns at all. My point is that such traditional view is a completely
erroneous interpretation of what Joshua is saying. The place to find those
10
towns is in the foothills on the western edge of hill country, a place where
many towns are documented, near the fertile east end of the Sorek Valley.
We expect to see Timnah in the foothills on the western edge of hill
country, where Samson operated. Timnah is at Joshua 15: 55-57. The town
name “
Jezreel”, at Joshua 15: 55-57, probably means something like “God will sow”.

That makes no sense in the desolate area southeast of Hebron, but would make
perfect sense in or near the foothills on the western edge of hill country.
We
have previously discussed that “Carmel”, another name at Joshua 15: 55-57,
probably means “wondrous garden” or something like that. Once again, that
meaning makes no sense southeast of Hebron, yet makes perfect sense in the
foothills. The Zanoah at Joshua 15: 55-57 may be a duplicate of the Zanoah
at
Joshua 15: 34 that is explicitly stated to be in the Shephelah. We have
previously discussed that “Jokdeam”/Jakeb-am, another town name at Joshua
15:
55-57, may reference “winepress”, a concept that is senseless southeast of
Hebron, but would make sense in the foothills just east of the Shephelah.
The names of the towns at Joshua 15: 55-57 make perfect sense as names of
towns in the foothills of hill country, just east of the Shephelah, while not

making sense as names of towns in the desolate area southeast of Hebron (a
place where there were no towns anyway). The problem is not what the text
of
Joshua says. No, the problem is the traditional scholarly misunderstanding
of
the Biblical geography set forth in chapter 15 of Joshua.
The city lists in Joshua are much older, and more accurate, than scholars
realize.
Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois
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