alt.history.ancient-egypt

"Lars Wilson" wrote:

> The fall of Jericho is dated

....to the 16th century B.C....

: Kathleen Kenyon found much of the same
: evidence--collapsed walls, stores of grain and an
: ash layer from a massive conflagration. However,
: she reached a completely different conclusion.
: Rather than supporting the biblical account, her
: finds at Jericho, she said, disproved the biblical
: story. Why? She dated the city's destruction to
: around 1550 B.C., meaning the site had been
: abandoned and therefore there was no city for
: the Israelites to capture at the time of the conquest.
http://www.lycos.com/info/kathleen-kenyon.html


: However, in the 1950's, Kathleen Kenyon
: conducted further excavations at Jericho and
: concluded that the destruction of Garstang's
: City IV should be dated ca. 1550 B.C., not ca.
: 1400 B.C. In fact, Kenyon found no evidence
: at all of occupation of Jericho ca. 1407 B.C.
http://www.biblicalchronologist.org/answers/bryantwood.php


: According to Kathleen Kenyon, this city was
: destroyed (along with many others in the country)
: when the Egyptians established control in Canaan
: after driving out the Hyksos -- an event usually
: dated to 1550 BC, long before the time of Joshua.
: She finds no city at Jericho again until the 11th
: century, well after the time of Joshua.
http://www.netours.com/jrs/2003/jericho-debate.htm


: Then when Kathleen Kenyon reexcavated Jericho in the
: 1950s using meticulous stratigraphic methodology, she
: found that Garstang's destruction layer was actually a
: Middle Bronze destruction dating to ca. 1560 B.C. far
: too early for the time of Joshua, regardless of the dates
: proposed for the Conquest.
http://www.reviewandexpositor.org/Drinkrev.doc