The Biblical record is clear, the Exodus occurred in 1450 (or 1446, some conclude).
So, did the Hebrews, while in slavery in Egypt, sneak into Canaan and destroy Jericho
150 years earlier than the Exodus? :rotfl:
Kathleen Kenyon's archeology was totally centered on pottery. She looked for a type
of pottery that was commonly IMPORTED and found NONE. Therefore, she concluded that Jericho must have been destroyed 150 years BEFORE the Biblical date of 1410 (1406 some conclude).
Prior archeological research, and later archeological research concluded that Jericho was
destroyed around 1410. Kenyon's conclusions were erroneous.
Beameup wrote.........The Biblical record is clear, the Exodus occurred in 1450 (or 1446, some conclude).
S-word..........The Bible states in Exodus 12: 40; that the Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years. 41 On the day the 430 years ended all the tribes of Israel left Egypt.
While Paul, in Galatians 3: 17; states that there was a period of 430 years, between the time when God first made his covenant with Abraham, who was then 85 years old, until the Law was given through Moses immediately after the Exodus.
And the Hebrew bible, reveals that there was a period of 430 years from when Abraham entered Canan at the age of 75, until the Exodus.
So which of these biblical records makes it clear to you that the exodus occurred in 1450 B.C.?
Beameup wrote..........So, did the Hebrews, while in slavery in Egypt, sneak into Canaan and destroy Jericho 150 years earlier than the Exodus?
S-word.........To begin with, the Hebrews are the descendants of Heber, and not all the descendants of Heber are Israelites, only those who are the descendants of Jacob, whose name was changed to ‘ISRAEL.’
And the shepherd kings=Hyksos were the Israelites, who departed Egypt in 1567 B. C. and who destroyed Jericho 40years later
beameup wrote..........Kathleen Kenyon's archeology was totally centered on pottery. She looked for a type of pottery that was commonly IMPORTED and found NONE. Therefore, she concluded that Jericho must have been destroyed 150 years BEFORE the Biblical date of 1410 (1406 some conclude).
S-word..........In 1995 Hendrik J. Bruins and Johannes van der Plicht used a 'HIGH PRECISION' radiocarbon dating test on 18 samples from Jericho, ‘
INCLUDING SIX SAMPLES OF CARBONISED CEREAL FROM THE BURNT STRATUM.’ The results of these tests gave the age of the strata as 1562 BC, with a margin of error of 38 years.
Please reveal how many pieces of pottery were radiocarbon tested?
In post #5 beameup wrote..........A comprehensive new survey of (archaeologist) Kenyon’s evidence at Jericho, however, has led author Bryant Wood to conclude that a walled city existed at Jericho until about 1400 B.C.E. when it was destroyed in a conquest. How wrong she/he was?
Beameup wrote...........Prior archeological research, and later archeological research concluded that Jericho was destroyed around 1410. Kenyon's conclusions were erroneous.
S-word............Prior archeological investigation of the site of Jericho was carried out by Charles Warren in 1868, but amounted to no more than a site-survey (Warren's prime interest was in establishing the modern equivalents of Biblical locales). In 1907-09 and again in 1911 digging was carried out by two German archaeologists, Carl Watzinger and Ernest Sellin. Watzinger and Sellin believed that they would be able to validate the Biblical story of Jericho's destruction by Joshua and the Israelites, but concluded instead that the data indicated that the city was unoccupied at the time which the Bible indicated for the Conquest.
These results were tested in 1930-36 by John Garstang, at the suggestion of William F. Albright, the doyen of Palestinian archaeology at the time. Garstang discovered the remains of a network of collapsed walls which he dated to about 1400 BCE, the time he believed the Israelites were on their conquest, that had apparently fallen in a dramatic fashion as opposed to being ruined by abandonment or decay from natural forces. Garstang's work thus reversed the conclusions of the earlier diggings.
Then, along came Kathleen Kenyon, whose archeological results proved all those prior investigations to be wrong.
Later archeological research by Bryant G. Wood (
beameup’s champion) who reviewed Kenyon’s field notes and made a number of criticisms of her work, claims that he found a number of ambiguities in the investigations and he also pointed to results of carbon 14 tests on a burnt stratum that dated the layer to 1410 BC, with a margin of error of 40 years. Wood’s conclusions therefore confirmed Garstang’s original erroneous estimates. HOWEVER, the carbon dating result (By Wood) was a consequence of an incorrect calibration.
Then, in 1995 Hendrik J. Bruins and Johannes van der Plicht used a 'HIGH PRECISION' radiocarbon dating test on 18 samples from Jericho, including six samples of carbonized cereal from the burnt stratum. The results of these tests gave the age of the strata as 1562 BC, with a margin of error of 38 years. Those results still stand today.
Beameup wrote.........I figured that you would be unaware of the fact that the radiocarbon testing equipment used by Kenyon was later proven to be out of calibration. I guess ignorance is bliss.
S-word Responds.........Would you please reveal who the ignoramus was in this instance? Was it, or was it not, Bryant G. Wood's incorrect radiocarbon calibrations which dated the destruction of Jericho at 1410 B.C. , and not Kathleen Kenyon's results as you, in your ignorance suggested?
