🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE The Sun stood still, and the Moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies.
In 1207 BCE, as an army of Israelites waged a bitter conflict against soldiers from Canaan, the sun all but disappeared. The event had all the markings of divine intervention, and the auspicious occurrence would go on to be recorded in the Old Testament. Today, eclipses have lost the aura of religious significance, but this particular occasion was special. It’s the first time we can confirm that an eclipse was ever recorded for posterity, say researchers from Cambridge University.
. In ancient times, scholars don’t seem to have distinguished between total solar eclipses, when the moon covers the sun entirely, and just the corona is visible, and annular solar eclipses, when the moon is far enough away from the Earth that it can’t cover the sun completely, leaving a fiery ring. Using a modified model of eclipse timings, the researchers found that an annular eclipse passed right over the land of Canaan on Oct. 30, 1207 BCE.
The circumstantial evidence was enough for the researchers to conclude that the Bible does indeed contain the first known description of a solar eclipse. Other, earlier eclipses, may have been recorded as well, but this is furthest back that we’ve ever been able to actually confirm that what ancient scholars were describing happened.It’s more than just a new record, too.
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