There are. Many, many archaeological findings.
There is no
satisfying archaeological find.
Joshua 3:13:
And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap.”
Joshua 3:15:
and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest),
In the biblical "Jordan" there is a word root with the meaning "to descend, fall down". The term "Jordan" is a topographical term and almost always means steep slope, mountain ridge.
Salibi supports his assertion with four arguments: First, the Jordan is never explicitly referred to as a river in the Hebrew Bible, while all other rivers and wadis are also referred to as such.
Moreover, in the five books of Moses and the Book of Joshua, the term "this Jordan" appears six times, and this only makes sense if it is not the name of a river or mountain ridge, but a general topographical term: "this mountain range" (or "this escarpment").
Thirdly, the great and arduous event of the crossing of the Jordan, according to the Bible, would be much more plausible if Joshua's procession across the Jordan did not consist in the passage through a ten-meter wide river in summer, but in the crossing of a mountain range of up to 3,000 meters high, whose watercourses, moreover, turn into torrential torrents during the heavy rains of Asir.
Even details of the biblical account fit in better with Asir than with present-day Palestine, according to Salibi:
According to the Bible, Moses led the Israelites from Mount Hor to Zalmona (today's Salaman) and via six other places (all of which Salibi identifies in Asir) to Sittim (Satan) and "to the Jordan of Jericho" (as the passage in Genesis 33 should be translated exactly to Salibi), for Salibi the mountain ridge near today's village of Warah, the biblical Jericho.
Even the place of transition can, "if the Hebrew text is read accurately", accurately describe Salibi: the Buqran Pass between Adam and Guraba. After Joshua 4:8, when the Children of Israel had crossed the pass, they took from the escarpment (traditional translation: Jordan) twelve stones, symbol of the twelve tribes of Israel, which they placed in Gilgal (today's southwest Arabian Gulgul) as a memorial.
Salibi: "The anecdote is undoubtedly an attempt to explain why the rocky hill Jabal Gulgul stands in the plain of Sahl Gulgul in Wadi Adam. The plain and the rocky hill still exist there to this day, their biblical names have remained unchanged."
Matthew 3:6:
and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
Please note that the
Greek scriptures of the New Testament were not written by the apostles. They are copies of the originals but they have been partially changed. For example, the name of God has been removed, there are also names that the apostles did not know and use, even the name of Jesus was created much later.
The Greek New Testament is not authentic.
