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Article: BIBLICAL FAITH AND SCIENCE FIND COMMON GROUND.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 8, 1996
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Byline: DAVID BRIGGS Associated Press
HAZOR, Israel -- Amnon Ben-Tor is an archaeologist who doubts anything he can't dig up. He takes nothing in the Bible on faith.
Yet, standing in a trench on a hot, barren mountainside, he stares into the fire-blackened stone and sees an army destroying the Canaanite city of Hazor 3,200 years ago.
Just as it says in the Book of Joshua.
``Hazor was destroyed by fire'' when the invading Israelites claimed their Promised Land, Ben-Tor says. ``Nobody can prove to me the story in Joshua is entirely fiction.''
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