“Patterns” of the Joshuan Conquest
by Damien F. Mackey Dr. Norman Geisler: “Patterns are really more important than dates because dates kind of fluctuate and the argument about dates is still going”. Patterns of Evidence. Exodus. (Advertising flyer) This is one of the most sensible statements that I have read regarding the methodology required for attaining a proper biblico-historical revision. Those would-be historians obsessed with dates, numbers, and charts, could take heed. One might expect that major biblical events, such as the Exodus and the Fall of Jericho, and more especially the great Noachic Flood, would have had such a notable impact on their environs as to have left some substantial evidential imprints, thereby enabling for a better co-ordination of stratigraphical and or/geological data. Even a conventional scholar such as professor Emmanuel Anati had appreciated – what I also firmly hold – that the Joshuan Conquest must have occu...