---
title: 'What Does “The Sun Stood Still” Mean?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Robert Dick Wilson'
date: 1918-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Hermeneutics'
- 'Biblical History'
scriptures:
- 'Joshua 10'
- 'Psalms 90'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/wilson-1918-what-does-the-sun-stood-still-mean
---

# What Does “The Sun Stood Still” Mean?

Philological study reinterpreting 'the sun stood still' (joshua 10) via Babylonian astronomical terms, arguing an eclipse/half-heavens reading rather than a literal solar miracle.

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