
Episode 19: The One Who Struggles with God (The Historical Books and Biblical Archaeology)
Literature and History
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The Biblical Chronology of the City of Jerusalem in the 600s BCE
Exodus and Numbers are quite clear about a major population migration that happened in the Middle Bronze Age. Archaeologists have been all over Mount Sinai and Kadesh Barnaya, now called an El Quadirat. But archaeology at these sites hasn't found anything from the late Bronze Age. The book of Joshua describes the vast forces of the Israelites crossing the Jordan River to lay waste to the populous and diverse states of Canaan.
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