{"id":998,"date":"2010-02-19T22:41:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T04:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2010\/02\/19\/redating-the-conquest\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T22:41:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T04:41:15","slug":"redating-the-conquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/redating-the-conquest\/","title":{"rendered":"Redating the Conquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this today and couldn&#8217;t figure out if the guy is trying to rewrite history or if he is just ignorant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is widely argued that Joshua&#8217;s account of the conquest does not match what is known from archaeology about the patterns of occupation and destruction of the cities in Canaan&#8230;.Conservative explanations for these disharmonies include redating the conquest from the generally accepted thirteenth century to the fifteenth century&#8230;.&#8221; (J. G. McConville, &#8220;Joshua, Book of,&#8221; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0801026946\/713713713-20\">Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible<\/a><\/em>, 405). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this today and couldn&#8217;t figure out if the guy is trying to rewrite history or if he is just ignorant. &#8220;It is widely argued that Joshua&#8217;s account of the conquest does not match what is known from archaeology about the patterns of occupation and destruction of the cities in Canaan&#8230;.Conservative explanations for these\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/redating-the-conquest\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}