Endnotes for "The Biblical Conquest: Myth or History?"

Jonathan Moore, D.P.M., Ph.D.

BIBLE & SPADE 36.3 (2023), 2023

The pottery of the Late Bronze I period was, of course, what Kenyon claimed was absent in her excavations at Jericho, saying that there was "a complete gap [in the ceramics] both on the tell and in the tombs between c. 1560 B.C. and c. 1400 B.C." (Archaeology in the Holy Land, 182). However, in seeming contradiction, when writing about her ceramic finds from the erosional debris that washed down the slope of the tell after Jericho's abandonment (forming a layer dubbed the "wash" or "streak"), Kenyon admitted, "As a group, the pottery has connections with Megiddo Level VIII, but also definite links with VII. The closest Beth-shan parallels are to Stratum IX" ("History of Jericho," 133). These aforementioned strata correspond as follows: