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 |  Subject: Scientists Discover Exact Date The Sun Stood Still During Joshua’s Biblical Battle Against Five Kings  Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:57 am | |
| Scientists Discover Exact Date The Sun Stood Still During Joshua’s Biblical Battle Against Five Kings
January 24, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
 Using data from NASA tracking astronomical events, the team of scientists ascertained that the only solar eclipse which occurred during the period when the Jews are believed to have entered Israel was on October 30, 1207 BCE. Though the Bible mentions other cases of the sun standing still, the story in the Book of Joshua is unique in that it also mentions the role the moon plays in the process. This led the scientists to conclude that the Bible was relating a case of a solar eclipse, in which the moon comes between the earth and the sun. One glaring difficulty for the scientists’ theory is that the Bible describes the sun lingering in the sky for an extended period of time. Their explanation, a solar eclipse, is precisely the opposite: the sun disappearing at a time it normally appears in the sky. The scientists resolve this contradiction using Hebrew etymology. The description of the event in the Book of Joshua uses the word דֹּם (dom), usually understood as ‘stand still’. The word is only used in one other place in the Bible. (READ MORE) |
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