Show discoveries shed light on an biblical Allu allusions sioni in a lecture on archeology archaeology Arche and bible history to the royal institution prof J garstang Oar stang sald said palestine 8 since ince the war had witnessed an unparalleled activity in arche archaeological archeological investigation and the results threw light particularly upon the period of joshua and the judges says the san francisco chronicle all the arche archaeological archeological and literary evidence pointed toward the same date in the middle of the late bronze brone age and about 1400 D B 0 as aa the starting point of the history lil story of israel in canaan upon this basis the I 1 ills I 1 IS details and topographical al in the old sources of the book of joshua were found to accord f e with the material results of investigation v vesti estl gation while lille the fragmentary picture of israels nels position under the judges was found to fit it adequately ko into the frame provided by Egypt egyptian lan chronology and to correspond closely in certain details with the record of egyptian relations with the land of canaan there was no reason to doubt that the traditions embodied in th alie e old documentary sources of both books were founded on facts |