More on Joshua and that eclipse

PHILOLOGOS: No, the Book of Joshua Does Not Tell of a Rare Solar Eclipse. Despite the claim of two recent scientific papers (Mosaic Magazine). PaleoJudaica is cited.

This is something that our British and Israeli scholars do not appear to have thought of. It’s not enough, in interpreting the Bible, to know Akkadian and astronomy. You also have to know how to read a simple story.

Yep.

Background here and here.

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