Talmud zu Jehoschua 5:1

¹⁶⁸Cf. Babli 34a and Tosephta 8:2–3. It is written¹⁶⁹Jos. 4:16.: “The waters descending from higher up stood like a dam, very far, from the town of Adam which is besides Ṣāretān^169aNelson Glueck (AASOR xxv-xxviii, 1945-1948) identifies Ṣāretān as Ṣā'idlyāh. [added from Addenda and Corrigenda by Guggeneheimer].. Rebbi Joḥanan said, Adam is a town and Ṣāretān is a town; there are twelve mil from one to the other. That teaches that the water was stacked up and rose like the citadel of Ṣāretān. ¹⁷⁰This refers to a tannaïtic discussion quoted in the Babli but not here. Which one is lighter, water or man? Waters are lighter than man; you know that this is so. This teaches that the waters were stacked and increased, wave upon wave. Rebbi Levi said, up to the sky’s heart. There¹⁷¹In Babylonia. This argument is not in the Babli., they said, as far as Babylon. It says here¹⁶⁹Jos. 4:16. “far”, and it says there¹⁷²2K. 20:14; Is. 39:3. “they came from a very far land, from Babylon.” It was stated¹⁷³In the Babli, and the Tosephta 8:3, this is attributed to R. Eleazar bar R. Simeon.: Rebbi Eliezer ben Jacob said, the waters were stacked and rose, waves on waves, for more than 300 mil until all the peoples of the world saw them. That is what is written¹⁷⁴Jos. 5:1.: “It happened when all the kings of the Emorite on the other side of the Jordan, and all the Canaanite dwelling on the Sea, heard that the Eternal had dried up the waters of the river Jordan for the children of Israel until they had passed across,” etc.