Quote:Again, the Hebrew compilers updated names to more recognizable names.
That is simply apologetic bullshit. In trying to write a description of events centuries before their time they simply assumed that the world as it existed in their time was the same. This accounts for the inclusion of places and states which existed in the Iron Age but not in the Late Bronze Age showing up in your fucking bible.
As William Dever has noted, the real miracle of Joshua is that he destroyed cities which did not exist.
In the Late Bronze Age, Egypt had complete dominion over Canaan. somehow, the later jerkoffs who wrote these fairy tales had forgotten that.
