General thread but starting off looking at the Book of Joshua.
There are lots of interesting things in this. For instance, what actually is the Ark? Why does it cause the waters to be heaped up?
Chapter 5:
And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;
15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
Now, lets put to one side that the river Jordan then is the same river as today as that river is a trickle. I understand it is possible to just walk across. Maybe the climate was wetter then, though, leading the Jordan to be fuller.
Another hypothesis is that the River Jordan is in the sky, similar to the Nile. What the Norse called the Bifrost maybe, running up from the north pole. But a more likely river in the sky would be rings around the Earth left by the Great Flood - sea spray, same as Saturn's rings. I ma privately convinced that if it were possible to bring back a sample from those rings they would have the same salinity as the sea on Earth.
But assuming they aren't talking about anything in the sky or anything in modern-day Palestine, Fomenko hypothesised that they were talking about the River Bosphorus in modern-day Turkey. Which is a big impressive water-course, could not possibly be forded and would have enough water to heap up as described in Chapter 5. He also identified an island where he thought the twelve stones were deposited.
