Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uzi Silber <uzisilber AT gmail.com>]

Hi there:

Thank you Kevin, Karl and Bryant for responding; you all contend that the river could have been sufficiently wide and deep in the pre-modern era to represent a formidable watery expanse, particularly during the Omer (harvest period between Pesach and Shavuot). 

Still, I wonder how impassible it would have been by the time the water reached the plains of Yericho where Bnai Yisrael were to have crossed.

Uzi Silber

 

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Rev. Bryant J. Williams III <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net> wrote:

Dear Uzi,

 

Any thing is possible, but in this case not probable since Joshua 3:15 (NIV) says, "Now the Jordan is flood stage all during harvest."

 

There is the similarity of the LORD having the Israelites crossing the Jordan and the Red Sea, after stopping the waters. The dissimilarities are The Ark of the Covenant, the priests, only one side of the waters stopped, crossing opposite Jericho.

 

I won't go with the dating of Joshua since that will open the proverbial can of worms.

 

Rev. Bryant J. Williams III