Those conclusions are still held tenaciously by most archaeologists and Old Testament scholars, despite the work of a later archaeologist, Bryant G. Kenyon’s conclusions quickly became scholarly dogma.
Hence, there was no city for the Israelites to conquer. Indeed, she claimed the Canaanite city was unoccupied when the Israelites supposedly entered the land. Then in the 1950s, Garstang’s colleague Kathleen Kenyon continued excavations at Jericho, but she reached a much different conclusion: Jericho was not destroyed at the time of Joshua but 150 years earlier, around 1550 BC. The evidence was consistent with an Israelite attack on the city around 1400 BC, the biblical date for the Conquest. In the 1930s, British archaeologist John Garstang started new excavations at Jericho, finding local Canaanite pottery from Joshua’s time and evidence for massive destruction by a fierce fire, including ash deposits up to 3 feet (1 m) thick. A group of German scholars did the first excavations at Jericho in the early 1900s. One of the first cities excavated in Israel was Jericho, the first stop in Joshua’s campaign of conquest in the Promised Land. Unfortunately, two developments eventually led most scholars to deny that the Conquest ever happened.Īt first the digs were promising.
Joshua’s Conquest of Canaan soon became an important focus. Archaeological research in the Holy Land began in earnest in the 1800s, driven by a keen interest in the history of Bible lands.
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