from: Israel
Finkelstein / Neil A. Silberman: The Bible
unearthed. Archeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and
the Origin of Its Sacred Texts; The Free Press, a
division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2001; German
edition has got the title "No trombones before Jericho"
(orig. German: "Keine Posaunen vor Jericho"): edition
C.H.Beck oHG, Munich 2002;
Here in this
analysis is used the German version "Keine Posaunen vor
Jericho" of DTV, Munich 2004, second edition of 2005.
All page indications refer to the German version. I hope
the page numbers are not very different.
There are different versions of
victories for the faked occupation: total victory or
partial victory
OT claims:
-- the whole land is said having occupied by the Jews and
all enemies are said having defeated (Joshua 21, 43-44)
(p.112)
-- "The land was calmed by the war" (Joshua 11,23)
-- all Canaanites and other native peoples are said having
been destroyed (p.113).
But according to other passages in the faked book Joshua
many Canaanites and Philistines are going on living as
neighbors of the Israelites (book Joshua, book of Judges)
(p.112). The same book Joshua stating that all land would
be occupied (p.113) is stating in other passages that big
parts of Canaan are waiting to be occupied yet
(p.113-114):
-- all territories of the Philistines on the southern
coast
-- the Phoenician coast farther to the North
-- the whole Beka'a valley in the North East (Joshua
13,1-6)
-- and in over 50% of the tribal homeland would exist big
enclaves with Canaanites yet
-- according to book of Judges, Megiddo, Beth-Shean and
Gezer are not under Jewish occupation, but according to
book Joshua the rulers of these towns are in the list of
the alleged defeated kings
-- the Ammonites and Moabites on the Eastbank of Jordan
river, [the invented] Jewish enemies, are said having been
not defeated, as also the Midianites and the Amalekites
with their alleged assaults on camels coming from the
desert (p.114).
[All these contradictions provoke that the events of
Joshua's victories are not very trustworthy. But there are
other facts].
Life
of the early Jewish tribes according to outdated OT:
book of Judges
At the beginning of the outdated book of Judges is
indicated the warning of assimilation in chapter 2,11-19
[racism with prohibition of marriage], and inspired
persons, fair-minded men and women, so called "judges",
have to save the population of Israel of critical
situation (p.115).
But ethnic mixed connections also were known, e.g. the
case of Simson (p.112).
The invented
distribution of land according to outdated OT
OT claims:
-- Joshua is said having called all tribes for a land
distribution
-- the tribes Ruben,
Gad, and the half
of the tribe Manasseh
are said having received land on the Eastbank of Jordan
river
-- all other tribes are said having received land on the
Westbank of Jordan river
-- the tribes Napthali,
Asser, Sebulon, and Issashar are said
having received land in the mountains of Galilee
-- the second half of the Manasseh tribe and the tribes Ephraim and Benjamin are said
having received the big part of the Westbank mountains,
the territory of Jezreel plain in the North down to
Jerusalem in the South
-- the tribe of Judah
is said having received the territory between the southern
mountain of Jerusalem down to the bay of Beersheba in the
South
-- the tribe Simeon
is said having received the dry plain of Beersheba and the
coastal plain aside
-- the tribe of Dan
is said having received the coastal plain and is said
having shifted his territory to the North of the country
-- then the tribal territories are said not having been
changed any more (p.113).
[Well, all these distributions are a big invention
indicating a right of territorial power. But the events
were other ones].
