The dating of the stratigraphy where the walls, showing signs of violent destruction, even by fire, were found, was not determined solely by studying pottery remains. That was done in the time of Kathleen Kenyon, when archaeology was emerging as a science. In later decades, with the introduction of carbon-14 analysis on organic remains extracted from the same stratigraphy, the dating proposed by archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon was confirmed. The article with the laboratory results are available online. I’m surprised that such a crucial dating technique, like carbon-14, hasn’t been mentioned.
We wanted to focus on some of the more introductory aspects in this episode but there is certainly a lot more to say about Jericho and its archaeology, including more recent methods like C14.
Joshua 6:25 Rahab still living in Israel. This seems to be a unique claim in the Hebrew Bible (please correct me if I’m wrong) of recency of information of a potentially historical event. (I’m not saying the claim is true)
I don't think we should be leaving this video confused, but we should leave with a better appreciation for the difficulty of condensing a myriad of shards into a unified narrative. I blame the people who lived in those times for not appreciating the historical importance of their lives and not leaving us a carefully arranged and dated stack of notarized documents.
*No earthquake in B account* In Joshua 6:20-24, no earthquake is described. The Israelites were around the city and no trembling was described. If a quake brought down the walls, the Israelites would be affected. If the authors meant to imply that Yahweh caused a quake, they would have said so. Jericho appears to be 5-6 kilometers west of the Dead Sea Rift.
Wasn't the main basis for Kenyon's early dating of the walls the absence of Cypriot ware amongst the pottery? This is obviously fallacious reasoning, and Garstang may well be correct.
Thankfully that whole thing about using this to justify current actions is completely a thing of the past and is not relevant to any current discussion whatsoever.
I find that when a story sounds unbelievable or strange, there is something more going on, and usually some investigation into the philology of the words used reveals roots that show deeper layers of association. Joshua and his band of marauders CIRCLED Jericho seven times and then on the Seventh Day, at Dawn (they did not use the spr root in the Hebrew, but I think the Syriac did), they sounded every shofar (where I think the Peshitta uses the qrn root) as the walls fell. What you find, if you look into this is that the root used for the circling and the root used for the shofar are connected, and these are related to the root of both Torah and the way that Joshua Draws boundaries. Of course, Saffron and HURSAG are hanging out there as well. Two interesting signs to look up on eBL are HUR and KIN, where KIN reveals interesting associations with Dawn, Seeking, Instruction, and Sending. It appears that HURSAG is the Capital Instruction, the Head Order, the Foremost Torah. Again, Saffron is the solution to the cipher.
Freud wrote about a boy who lost his mother and would compulsively use his toys to reenact her death. He said it was a way of repeating their personal tragedy in a setting that they could control.
The dating of the stratigraphy where the walls, showing signs of violent destruction, even by fire, were found, was not determined solely by studying pottery remains. That was done in the time of Kathleen Kenyon, when archaeology was emerging as a science. In later decades, with the introduction of carbon-14 analysis on organic remains extracted from the same stratigraphy, the dating proposed by archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon was confirmed. The article with the laboratory results are available online. I’m surprised that such a crucial dating technique, like carbon-14, hasn’t been mentioned.
We wanted to focus on some of the more introductory aspects in this episode but there is certainly a lot more to say about Jericho and its archaeology, including more recent methods like C14.
Joshua 6:25 Rahab still living in Israel.
This seems to be a unique claim in the Hebrew Bible (please correct me if I’m wrong) of recency of information of a potentially historical event.
(I’m not saying the claim is true)
I don't think we should be leaving this video confused, but we should leave with a better appreciation for the difficulty of condensing a myriad of shards into a unified narrative. I blame the people who lived in those times for not appreciating the historical importance of their lives and not leaving us a carefully arranged and dated stack of notarized documents.
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*No earthquake in B account*
In Joshua 6:20-24, no earthquake is described. The Israelites were around the city and no trembling was described. If a quake brought down the walls, the Israelites would be affected. If the authors meant to imply that Yahweh caused a quake, they would have said so.
Jericho appears to be 5-6 kilometers west of the Dead Sea Rift.
Wasn't the main basis for Kenyon's early dating of the walls the absence of Cypriot ware amongst the pottery? This is obviously fallacious reasoning, and Garstang may well be correct.
3:32 Flannel boards-NOSTALGIA
Right?!
Thankfully that whole thing about using this to justify current actions is completely a thing of the past and is not relevant to any current discussion whatsoever.
The best thing about this story is it didn't really happen. So we have to look into another reason for it besides historical accuracy.
Very interesting video! Thanks for the engaging discussion!
Thanks!
I find that when a story sounds unbelievable or strange, there is something more going on, and usually some investigation into the philology of the words used reveals roots that show deeper layers of association. Joshua and his band of marauders CIRCLED Jericho seven times and then on the Seventh Day, at Dawn (they did not use the spr root in the Hebrew, but I think the Syriac did), they sounded every shofar (where I think the Peshitta uses the qrn root) as the walls fell. What you find, if you look into this is that the root used for the circling and the root used for the shofar are connected, and these are related to the root of both Torah and the way that Joshua Draws boundaries. Of course, Saffron and HURSAG are hanging out there as well. Two interesting signs to look up on eBL are HUR and KIN, where KIN reveals interesting associations with Dawn, Seeking, Instruction, and Sending.
It appears that HURSAG is the Capital Instruction, the Head Order, the Foremost Torah.
Again, Saffron is the solution to the cipher.
Freud wrote about a boy who lost his mother and would compulsively use his toys to reenact her death. He said it was a way of repeating their personal tragedy in a setting that they could control.