"JTEM" <jtem01@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Lars Wilson" <siaxa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> She specifically dates the Israelites at the later
> LBA level which she dates as being destroyed c.
> 1350-1325 BCE.
I see, you're completely insane!
When she thinks the Israelites were supposed to be
running around (she never dates them. She merely
accepts for the sake of argument the dating that
others offer) is irrelevant. What is relevant is that there
was no city at what you call "Jericho" during the
period you need one.
FINALLY!!! It is one thing to disagree with Kenyon's
opinions on the matter, but another thing to claim she never
expressed this!
So FINALLY we are actually on the same page. You've been
calling me a "LIAR" for claiming what Kenyon said, when that's not
the case. You're just disagreeing with her. That's fine. That's
another
argument though. That's not me misquoting her.
So I'm not INSANE. Kenyon might be, per you, to think the Israelites
conquered a non-city c. 1350-1325 BCE, but I'm just quoting her,
that's all.
As far as what archaeologists can determined based on what was left, not
that much was left at all. They only found some pottery, one little part
of
a house, a stove and a dropped juglet, along with cartouches.
So you've changed your tune and I've been vendicated.
Now if you want to argue WHY Kenyon was wrong, that's something else. But
she had her reasons for this opinion.
What I offer is the absolute Biblical timing for the event, which is 1346
BCE. I note that this falls within Kenyon's dating, suggesting her dating
is correct.
Academically, though, since the majority of the LBA city was eroded away,
archaeologists can't determine very much about the details of the original
city and its walls, if there were any walls. That's because nothing
remains. But Kenyon STILL thinks this is the only time the Israelites
could
have come through:
Page 261 of her book, "Digging Up Jericho," in the Chapter called "Jericho
And Coming Of The Israelites," she says:
"It is a sad fact that of the town walls of the Late Bronze Age, within
which period the attack by the Israelites must fall by any dating, not a
trace remains."
So archaeologists are right in saying no city was FOUND, but they cannot
claim no city ever existed just because it has eroded away almost
completely.
Dave2002
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