BIBLE STORY PROVED
WORK BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS In a lecture on “Archaeology and Bible History” to the Royal Institution Professor J. Garstang said Palestine since the war had witnessed an unparalleled activity in archaelogical investigation, and the results threw light particularly upon the period of Joshua and the Judges. All the archaeological and literary evidence pointed toward the same j date In the middle of the late j Bronze Age, about 1400 8.C., as the j starting point of the history of Israel j in Canaan. Upon this basis the his-; torical details and topographical | allusions in the old sources of the j Book of Joshua were found to accord ! with the material results of investigation: while the fragmentary picture oi Israel’s position under the Judges was found to lit adequately into the frame provided by Egyptian chronology and to correspond closely in certain details j with the record of Egypt relations with the Land of Canaan. There was then no reason to doubt but that the traditions embodied in the old docu mentary sources (J and E) of both books were founded on fact. The archaeology of the later documents (D and P) was a more complex study.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1021, 11 July 1930, Page 11
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