Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Originally Posted by TF49
Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Originally Posted by Ringman
antelope_sniper,

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Originally Posted By Ringman
antelope_sniper,

You start with the idea the Bible is wrong and stop when you find something on the web you agree with. You apparently didn't read to the last paragraph of Mojohand's cut and paste.


Except I'm aware of the additional difficulties introduced with attempting to move the timeline a full millennium. It just doesn't work.



AS,

Kenyon concluded that the city walls had collapsed before the city burned. Just like the bible says.

Regarding her dating, she concluded that the site was destroyed decades before Jewish arrival. Her conclusions were strongly influenced by the absence of pottery known to be common in the time the Jews came. She only excavated two small squares. Her dating was not consistent with the conclusions of her predecessor who concluded the fall of Jericho to be consistent with the time of Jewish conquest. Pottery shard dating work has now shown that matches the Joshua timeline.

So, you have the wall and fire evidence consistent with the bible as well as her successor as well as respected pottery dating experts lining it up for the Bible being correct.
So, what about the C-14 dating? The dispute is about 160 years with these 3500 year old samples. Consider that for a moment.

Anyway, it seems the dating is effectively disputed. Seems the dates had not been correctly “downdated” as is commonly required with centuries old samples. If one looks at the data and applies the required adjustments, Kenyon’s timeline is not corroborated but in fact is disputed. Go ahead and google “Jericho Chronology Dispute.”

The facts are there to see if one takes the blinders off.

All in all, the biblical account of the fall of Jericho is remarkably well supported by science.

TF


You mean you don't want it to work!


It's doesn't matter what I want, but if you try to make the 2400BCE time line work for Jericho, you have to consider how that would affect the other aspect of the Joshua timeline. Attempting to force this once piece doesn't create a cohesive puzzle.




AS,

Are you referring to the timeline issue brought forth by Katherine Kenyon's work?


TF


In what part?

Kenyon puts the timeline 150 years before the consensus understanding of the Biblical account, and new C-14 testing corroborated her findings (see Mojo's story and link above). At the end of Mojo's post there was a throw away line that a Biblical scholar proposed an even earlier timeline of 2400BCE to make it work, and that's what I was discarding above with Ringman.



AS,

Kenyon concluded that the city walls had collapsed before the city burned. Just like the bible says.

Regarding her dating, she concluded that the site was destroyed decades before Jewish arrival. Her conclusions were strongly influenced by the absence of pottery known to be common in the time the Jews came. She only excavated two small squares. Her dating was not consistent with the conclusions of her predecessor who concluded the fall of Jericho to be consistent with the time of Jewish conquest. Pottery shard dating work has now shown that matches the Joshua timeline.

So, you have the wall and fire evidence consistent with the bible as well as her successor as well as respected pottery dating experts lining it up for the Bible being correct.
So, what about the C-14 dating? The dispute is about 160 years with these 3500 year old samples. Consider that for a moment.

Anyway, it seems the dating is effectively disputed. Seems the dates had not been correctly “downdated” as is commonly required with centuries old samples. If one looks at the data and applies the required adjustments, Kenyon’s timeline is not corroborated but in fact is disputed. Go ahead and google “Jericho Chronology Dispute.”

The facts are there to see if one takes the blinders off.

All in all, the biblical account of the fall of Jericho is remarkably well supported by science.

TF

Last edited by TF49; 04/24/16.
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