Did Joshua's 'Sun stand still' at Gibeon remember a solar eclipse?
Joshua 10:12-13: 'Sun, stand still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon ... So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven.' Humphreys and Waddington (2017) read the verb as 'be dark' and match it to the annular eclipse of 30 October 1207 BC, just after the Merneptah Stele (about 1208 BC) first names Israel. Khalisi (2021) prefers the total eclipse of 30 September 1131 BC.
How it connects
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The 30 October 1207 BC ring of fire did cross Gibeon, near sunset
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Base rate: about 1.6 central eclipses over Gibeon in 200 years (1300 to 1100 BC)
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Joshua's 'Sun stand still' was the annular eclipse of 30 October 1207 BC
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Joshua 10:12-13: the Sun 'stood' at Gibeon, the Moon in the valley of Aijalon, 'in the midst of heaven'
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Tested the 1207 BC eclipse claim for Joshua at Gibeon