RE: Archaeology Sticks It Up The Bible's Ass Again
September 11, 2012 at 11:27 pm
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2012 at 11:30 pm by Minimalist.)
(September 11, 2012 at 10:54 pm)Polaris Wrote: So that means that there were twelve generations between the two events. 480/40 = 12. The accepted date for the entry of the Israelites as a force (from whatever origin story) is roughly 1250-1200 BCE, which roughly coincides with the Iron Age in Canaan. There are no records whatsoever of them in Canaan before that period.
Tel Aviv is in northern Canaan, also known as Israel.
No. Tel Aviv is about 15 miles north of Jerusalem but on the coast. The seat of Egyptian control in the north, Beth Shean, was in southern Galilee, quite a bit north of Jerusalem and near the modern Jordanian border.
Quote:The accepted date for the entry of the Israelites as a force (from whatever origin story) is roughly 1250-1200 BCE
Again, modern archaeology has dismissed the Conquest story as later fiction. Groups which later became Israelites ( and Judahites, Moabites and Edomites, for that matter) began to coalesce in the hill country of Eastern Canaan c 1200 BC. Bill Dever charitably calls them proto-Israelites although many other archaeologists will not even go that far.
