
1.6 Canaan of the Patriarchs
History in the Bible
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Palestinian Potry - The Age of Egypt
Book of exodus says that the israelites had begun their journey to the promised land from city called pi rameses. This had grown up around a huge palace built by the egyptian pharaoh rameses some time after his enthronement in 12 79 b c. It was abandoned after his death 60 years later. The patriarchs were realistically depicted in the bible as having a bedouin life style. And it all slotted in rather nicely with the bible's chronology, which placed jacob's te scent into egypt 910 years before solomon. But albright could not justify garstang's date of the fall of jericho to about 14
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