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Myths of the Heroes 251
after the time of Joshua (thirteenth century B.C.). This doesn’t leave much room for
Joshua to have killed King Jabin and burned Hazor to the ground and have another
King Jabin rise to dominate northern Canaan from that same city.
The evidence suggests that somewhere in Israel’s early Canaanite history, a battle—
real or fictional—occurred between Israelites and a King Jabin in Hazor. At the time
of the writing of Joshua, tradition already had assigned that battle to a period when
Israel had been settled in Canaan for quite some time. The authors of Joshua borrowed
that story and rewrote it to make Joshua the hero.
As with so many other biblical stories, once again we have the same story told
twice, with slightly altered facts and different characters.