Israelite Conquest of Canaan debated -- National Geographic

Discussion of destruction of Hazor and relevance to biblical account of Israelite Conquest of Canaan

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[vic08b]

The exodus date was wrong

[fudgedogbannana]

If I may also suggest that the Israelites would have destroyed graven images and statues completely early on when they were still favored by god. True, later Israelites did take up idol worship along with natives that were not annihilated by Joshuah's invasion and might even have erected a statue or two themselves.

[fudgedogbannana]

No mention of the time line of this destruction. I suggest that if it were before 1413BC it must have been the see people, if between 1413 and 720 it must have been the Israelites, from time to time between 1300 and 960BC the philistines could have done it, or if after 720BC the Assyrians. my point is what was the true time line of the destruction?

[Irtidad]

The Israelites were an off-shoot of the Canaanite peoples, they spoke basically the same language and used the same alphabet, and had much the same culture. If there was this great conquest of Canaan as described in the Bible then we would expect to find some big sudden shift in the remnants of food culture and pottery culture and so on in the archaeological record, but no such shift occurs. The shift in the physical remnants of culture is gradual, as would be expected not in a time of conquest.

[Tareltonlives]

I suspect that there was conflict between Israel and the Canaanite cities (which is how the Israelite state came into being), but it was not as large as the Bible claims (such as the destruction of major cities and genocide)

[sapiensape]

The Israeli archaeologist Ben Tor, in charge today of Hazor's excavtions makes no mention of Moshe Dothan's finding two Philistine sherds at Hazor. I wonder why? I contacted Eric Cline 2 years ago on this and he replied he did not know of Moshe Dothan's Philistine find either!

[sapiensape]

The Israeli archaeologist Moshe Dothan found at Hazor (pronounced hat-zor) two Philistine pottery sherds, suggesting for him the city fell after the arrival of the Sea Peoples, among whom were the Pelest, they attempting to invade Egypt circa 1175 BC in the reign of Pharaoh Rameses III. In this video Professor Eric Cline thought the Sea Peoples may have destroyed Hazor, the Israelites falsely claiming to have done so instead.