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Can the destruction of Tel Hazor by Joshua be proven as historic by modern archaeologists and historians?
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Hazor was destroyed many times in its history. The difficulties of interpretation are shown by the excavations conducted under Yigael Yadin from 1955 to 1958 and again in 1968-69. In investigating 15 different areas on the Tell, there were found a total of 21 different cities, or occupation layers on top of each other. Yadin also found a thick layer of ash in a destruction layer as well as evidence of desecration of cultic object (idols). The final destruction was around 1230 BC. Referring to this desctruction Yadin wrote in Hazor: The Rediscovery of a Great Citadel of the Bible (1975), "is doubtless to be ascribed to the Israelite tribes, as related in the Book of Joshua."
However the difficulties of interpretation are shown here as others interpret this layer as relating to the destruction by Deborah and Barak and an earlier layer as that of Joshua.
This site is by far the largest in Israel, and Yadin had hoped before he died to find a royal archive to add further evidence about the history of the city. All this complexity, with 21 different layers demonstrates the difficulties of interpretation. It may yet be demonstrated with certainty which layer relates to Joshua, just as many other Bible details have been found to be in accord with archaeological findings.
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