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Perhaps there was a mini Exodus of a few dozen families or more, but certainly nothing on the scale that the Bible suggests (2-3 million).
yeah that doesn't even seem possible. I had thought it was more like a migration in the begining with other tribes gradually joining over the "40 years" of wandering.
Im not trying to argue here but i just wanted to share what i thought.
from the last thing i read i thought Ai (Ha-Ai, which was Hebrew for "the ruins"), was the older site of a city, located between Jerico, and Gibeon, and that it was a Military outpost rather than a city. though it ws located at a former city site, and therefore had the necessary resources to easily maintain the defensive outpost. and was a short battle between 4000-5000 combatants. Using the bible more as a source of the event, not a literal work of the event.
after Ai the book covers another battle called "The Waters or Merome", which took place after Ai at the waters of merome valley in Galilee. and was more of the key battle to give the Israelites some land, instead of wandering around. Joshua's army through tactics and good planning (its a military history book, not a religion book), defeated a confederacy of allied Caananites and Amorites.
i really dont have alot of sources. its just a topic i found very interesting.
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The thing is there's nothing appraoching the scale of the rout that Joshua's book claims. Now for Josh's account to be accurate we need to find evidence of complete destruction at all locations in Palestine within either a 5 or 7 year period, this depends on certain biblical interpretations. We do not have that.
yeah probably not, the bible's version seems to me to be VERY imbellished.
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