Deadly Historical Error in the Bible - Did Joshua Destroy the Walls of Jericho?

 Deadly Historical Error in the Bible - Did Joshua Destroy the Walls of Jericho?

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and peace be upon the Messenger of God, his family, his companions, and all of God’s messengers
and prophets. God Almighty says
: “Do they not then consider the Qur’an carefully? Had it been from other than God, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy.”
God Almighty says
: “So woe to those who write the Scripture with their own hands and then say, ‘This is from God,’ in order to exchange it for a small price. So woe to them for what their hands have written and woe to them for what they earn.”

Certainly any book that claims to be from God cannot contain any error of any kind. If any error of any kind is found, then this book loses its infallibility and is a distorted book that has been tampered with by humans. We cannot trust it.
This is what we find in the Bible, where we find many errors of all types and colors.
Today we will discuss a grave historical error in the Old Testament in the Book of Joshua.

First, we must emphasize that scholars today confirm that the Book of Joshua is a historically inaccurate book and was written by different and multiple people over different periods of time. Ann E. Killebrew

says :

Anne E. Kilbrew is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University. Over the past thirty-five years, she has been involved in numerous archaeological projects in Israel, Egypt, and Turkey. She is currently the co-director of the Tel Akko Total Archaeology Project (Israel). Her research focuses on the Bronze and Iron Ages of the Eastern Mediterranean, ancient ceramic studies, Roman and Byzantine Palestine, modern technologies and 3D documentation in archaeology, and heritage studies/community archaeology.

Almost all scholars agree that the Book of Joshua holds little historical value for early Israel and most likely reflects a much later period. Source
Killebrew , Ann E. (2005). Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, and Early Israel, 1300–1100 BCE The scholar Jerome FD Creach says that the Book of Joshua was composed by more than one person and developed and was written long after the events







Source
interpretation a bible commentary for teaching and preaching joshua p.9-10

After this simple introduction, we begin to present the fatal historical error in the Book of Joshua.
The Book of Joshua, Chapter 6, talks about the conquest of the city of Jericho by the children of Israel
and the destruction of the walls of Jericho by the people’s shouting of trumpets.


According to the chronological order of events in the Bible, the conquest of the cities of Canaan by Joshua, son of Nunah, occurred in the fifteenth century BCE. Some say that it was between the thirteenth century BCE and the eleventh century BCE, but this opinion does not agree with what is stated in the Book of Kings 1
:6:1 [And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the king of Solomon over Israel in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he built the house for the Lord.]
So according to the evidence, Joshua’s invasion of the cities of Canaan falls in the fifteenth century BC because after the exodus of the children of Israel from Egypt by about 40 years and the exodus of Israel from Egypt according to the correct opinion in the fifteenth century BC,


but the evidence and archaeological discoveries and archaeological research prove that what came in the Book of Joshua, Chapter 6, about the destruction of the city of Jericho and the demolition of its walls is incorrect and is considered a historical paradox and a grave mistake, as the city was
destroyed a long time before Joshua came to it and was not rebuilt again and did not have walls at the time of the invasion that the Bible says and there were no settlements or residents in it, as the archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon conducted research and excavations and confirmed after that that the city of Jericho was completely destroyed in the sixteenth century BC and there is no trace of destruction at the time of Joshua’s invasion of Jericho according to the Bible, as the city was completely destroyed.
This is confirmed by Reverend Samuel Youssef in his book Introduction to the Old Testament, p. 151,


and he says : Professor of Archaeology Israel Finkelstein in his book The Bible Unveiled, page 119,


and Gary Greenberg, president of the New York Biblical Archaeology Society, says in his famous book
101 Myths of the Bible
that the city of Jericho was destroyed many centuries before the coming of Joshua, as archaeological evidence shows,

i.e. in the sixteenth century BC.

William Stebbing confirms the same statement in

an attempt to respond.

There is one response presented by Christians in all Christian websites, books, and even audio or video clips in all languages,
which is their reliance on the words of a scholar named John Garstang and another scholar named Bryant Wood, who said that the date of the destruction of Jericho and the archaeological discoveries agree with what is stated in the Bible.
But unfortunately, the words of these two scholars turned out to be wrong.
First: John Garstang
Scientists criticized John Garstang’s words because he relied on the Bible to interpret the discoveries and did not rely on evidence and discoveries in a scientific manner.
We read in the book Archaeology of the Bible
by Magnus Magnusson,



the reference says that the walls that Garstang celebrated were destroyed a thousand years before the invasion of Joshua according to the Bible.

Second: Bryant Wood Bryant Wood
conducted research and announced in 1990 that the archaeological discoveries support what the Bible mentioned about the destruction of the city of Jericho, as he said that the date of its destruction was in the fifteenth century BC and not as Kathleen Kenyon says, i.e. the sixteenth century BC, which matches the date of the invasion according to the Bible.
But
unfortunately, the result that the scientist Bryant Wood came out with is incorrect because it was based on a wrong calibration.
Only 5 years after Bryant Wood’s words, in 1995, the scientists Hendrik J. Bruins and Johannes van der Plicht
conducted a high-precision radiocarbon analysis on 18 samples
and the results came out that the destruction of the city of Jericho was at the end of the seventeenth century BC or the sixteenth century BC, which is the same date confirmed by the scientist Kathleen Kenyon.


This is a direct link to access these results
https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/in...icle/view/1666

Praise be to God, and peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you.
The article is taken from
https://www.call-to-monotheism.com/b...ho____by_karim.