[meteorite-list] Seven Plagues and Killer Meteorites
From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <886057.30931.qm_at_web36910.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi Darren - You are quite right to question Old Testament materials, and any interpretation done of them. Given the relationship between the Old Testament and Israeli nationalism, a lot of the recent work in the area on the middle bronze age has been pretty bad. Most of the archaeologists working in the region have been engaged in what may be called a "warm" debate. One of my notes to the Cambridge Conference on the Joshua impact event from several years back may be found at: http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/cc0121o2.html (I hope that URL is correct - I can not cut and past on this machine.) What I used there is hard evidence. I cited contemporaneous documents and their related sites and artifacts are cited. In my opinion, the materials found in the book of Joshua may only be commented on in that context. Anything else is spurious. To do otherwise would be like trying to understand Native American "traditions" (oral histories) without refering to the physical record. good hunting, E.P. Grondine Man and Impact in the Americas ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz Received on Tue 19 Jun 2007 01:38:37 PM PDT |
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