• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Here is a list of the killings in Joshua.

    The Jericho Massacre

    Achan and his family are stoned and burned to death

    The Ai Massacre

    God stops the sun so that Joshua can get his killing done in the daylight

    Five kings are killed and hung on trees

    Joshua utterly destroyed all that breathed as the Lord God commanded

    The genocide of twenty kingdoms

    The Anakim: Some more giant killing

    https://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/dwb/jos.html

    • mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      To be fair to the old testament it’s not factual history. Those no proof of a Unified Kingdom of Israel and no proof for any of Joshua’s conquests. Even though we have evidence of much older kingdoms in the area such as Yamhad.

      If anything the old testament has history reversed. In 722 BC the Assyrians destroy Israel (circa 1000 BC with capital always in Shechem). The refugees move to Judah (circa 900 BC). The Israelites took their religion and rebased it on Jerusalem AFTER Israel got sacked. This means a “Jewish” identity for Israel could not have taken off until the 600 BCs at the earliest. 4000 years of Judaism history my 🍑.

      Maccabee came in the 200 BCs and forced people into what we now call Judaism. The reason why a complete Bible cannot be found from the BC era is because the Bible wasn’t finished yet.

      • The oldest fragment of the old testament says that the mountain around Shechem is the holy place.

      • The Bible says that a lot of the Judahites were bad but all of the Samaritans are bad.