Wanna perfect example of how gross misinterpretations can arise when reading Scripture? In the Japanese language, there’s an expression that goes like this: SABA WO YOMU. “Saba” means mackerel (as in the fish) and “wo yomu” means “to read” (as in to “read a book”). So literally, this means “to read the mackerel”. But what in […]
J11-8: Should We Take the Bible Literally?
“So they set out, they and all their armies, many people, in number like the sand at the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.”-Joshua 11:4 In verse 4, we’re told the number of Canaanites was so great they were “like the sand at the seashore”. It should be obvious that this is simply an […]
J11-7: How The King Of Hazor Got Every Canaanite And His Grandmother To Gang Up Against Israel
“When Yavin king of Hatzor heard of it, he informed Yovav king of Madon; the king of Shimron; the king of Akhshaf; the kings to the north, in the hills, in the ‘Aravah south of Kinn’rot, in the Sh’felah and in the regions of Dor on the west; the Kena‘ani to east and west; the […]
J11-6: Why The Land Of Israel Is An Archaeologist’s Dream!
Yesterday, I talked about how when one ancient civilization conquered another, it would build its city on top of the rubble of the city it had just conquered. Because of this, sitting below each city were literally layers of rubble and artifacts that altogether formed something like a multi-layered birthday cake with different historical colors […]
J11-5: What The Godfather Of All Hebrew Archaeologists Had To Say About Civilization At Hazor
Just as Jebus (another name for “Jerusalem”) was the ruler over the southern Canaanite kingdoms, so was Hazor the ruler over the northern regions of Canaan during Joshua’s time. A good 1000 years before Joshua and his Hebrew army ever stepped foot inside the Promised Land, Hazor was one of the largest and most powerful […]
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