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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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Look at what is happening on the walls. See the ashes? See the wood? Size of the timber? Here. On the walls. Wherever you look, wherever you go, same signs of destruction.
[Narrator] These layers of destruction appear to provide tangible evidence of the conquest of Canaan by the armies of Joshua.
Given THE MOOD of 1950s Israel, just after the country's independence,
this HYPOTHESIS supported the idea that THE BIRTH OF A NATION HAD TO BE PRECEDED BY A MILITARY CONQUEST.
[Government Propagandist] "Joshua's destruction of Hazor,
the great city of north Canaan referred to in the Bible,
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