Jan de Koning wrote:
> My uncle showed in his study about the El Amarna
> tablets and the OT (in Dutch, published in 1942), that numbers in the early
> books of the Bible do not make sense in a modern sense. To illustrate that
> he took the size of Jericho when Israel invaded Canaan. That size is
> available through the excavations. He compared it with the number of men
> that had to walk each day around the city, and the seventh day seven
> times. That is clearly impossible, if we take the modern sense of the
> numbers used. Even when we replace "thousand" by "clan" it appears to be
> impossible.
What little I have read indicates that Jericho was a fairly small place.
How would that make marching around it impossible? Was it really large
and I have been misinformed?
Walt
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