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beejai's review
4.0
This is a short book that attempts to demonstrate how the book of Joshua, as we read it today, does indeed match up with historical archaeological evidence and can be considered reliable history. A significant chunk of the short work is demonstrating how the El-Amarna tablets (letters from various Canaanite "kings" to Pharaoh), dated around the same time as the conquests of Joshua, do tell of the invasion of the Hebrews.
The work and the history are mostly good, but I think he was weak in trying to correlate all the various myths around the world of a long day or long night with Joshua's command to have the sun stand still. I also was not a fan of his "us vs them" conspiracy theory that most scholars are all involved in some vast plot to disprove the Bible. Please just give us the facts and leave the conspiracy commentary aside.
Either way, this short work is definitely worth a read no matter what one's personal views are.
The work and the history are mostly good, but I think he was weak in trying to correlate all the various myths around the world of a long day or long night with Joshua's command to have the sun stand still. I also was not a fan of his "us vs them" conspiracy theory that most scholars are all involved in some vast plot to disprove the Bible. Please just give us the facts and leave the conspiracy commentary aside.
Either way, this short work is definitely worth a read no matter what one's personal views are.
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