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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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you have to come here to a residency like this.
There was a stone garrison. There were scribes here. There were soldiers here. There were administrators here. And everything was under the control of the Egyptians.
Which means that 20 kilometres from here, 30 kilometres from here, if somebody wanted to take some sort of major economic decision,
or a major political decision, he needed to come to Beth-Shean to get the approval of the Egyptians.
They were the masters of the countryside.
According to the traditional Biblical archaeology,
the conquest took place in the late 13th century in the time of Ramesses II.
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