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34: The Hardest Story in the Bible (for me)

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The Conquest Gene, the Gene of Conquest Narratives

There's no suitable archaeological evidence at the st ever happened, not just jericho, but any of these battles that we read about. The story of joshua is a more allegorical rendering. Demic material doesn't get the t v raitings nodno, it doesn't. I want to come at the scriptures from jewish perspective,. which means i'm going to isoget, what we call isegesus. So i want to wrestle with this question: Did the conquest really happen? Maybe maybe it didn't. But i don't just want there to be an argument over whether or not Jericho actually took place.

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