Page "Ajalon" Paragraph 6

As for the wording that the sun and the moon " stopped " in the sky, there was a widespread explanation, even during the Middle Ages, for example in A. D. 1595.

According to it, the light issued by celestial bodies served them as a propulsion for their apparent movements in the sky, just like for comets.

The second one, still during that long battle of Joshua, must have been the eclipse of the sun at noon, in the middle of the sky.

It occurred on January 6, 1470 BCE.

This date corresponds very well with the biblical and Jewish chronology ( Seder Olam, Josephus, Bar Hebraeus ) but has never been widely accepted by secular authorities.