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Joebob787
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i was just looking at a Bible Archaeology website and i saw your name
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eleven
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Joined: 28 Sep 2007
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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| ChristianWoman1 wrote: | I just got an email on this the other day as well...  This is rediculous. 
I also just heard on the news [ radio ]just yesterday that there is an archiologist who has found proof of Jericho's wall coming down to be biblically true 
anyone else hear about this?? |
Quoting from the Archeological Study Bible:
THE WALLS OF JERICHO
Joshua 6
Old Testament Jericho has undergone four excavations:
by Charles Warren (1867-1868); Ernst Sellin and Carl Watzinger (1907-1909); John Garstang (1930-1936); and Kathleen Kenyon (1952-1958).
Unfortunately, the frist three digs used methodsmodern archaeologists consider primitive and unreliable, and the site has suffered from erosion.
WatInger concluded that Jericho was unoccupied during the LATE BRONZE AGE. when it was supposed to have been destroyed by Joshua, while Garstang determined that the heavily fortified city was destroyed late in this period. But Kenyon argued that it was annihilated at the end of the MIDDLE BRONZE AGE, around 1550 B.C., after which it boasted at best a meager settlement though the LATE BRONZE AGE period - leaving no fortified city for Joshua to destroy.
Dating issues aside, much of the archaeological data corresponds with the Biblical account:
Jericho's prominence and wealth suggest a great city. Excavations have shown that Jericho had massive defenses. Its tell (mound composed of remains of successive settlements) was surrounded by an earthen embankment stabilized by a 15-foot (4.6m) stone wall. Atop the retaining wall stood a free-standing mud brick wall about 6 feet (1.8m) thick and three or four times as high. A similar wall topped the embankment.
Jericho's mud brick walls crumpled in a heap at the base of the retaining wall. Archaeologists suggest that an earthquake took place and that the fallen bricks formed a ramp by which the Israelites surmounted the retaining wall.
A 3 foot (.9m) high ask layer verifies a massive conflagration. There are indidcations of plague in Jericho before its fall.
Joshua 3:15 states that Israel forded the Jordan at harvest time. Collaborating evidence includes Rahab's drying of flax on her roof(2:6) and Israel's Passover celebration (a springtime festival observed just prior to harvest) immediately before the battle (5:10).
Full jars of recently harvested grain confirm the brevity of the siege (6:15).
That Jericho's grain was left to burn is extraordinary, suggesting that the invaders had an unusual reason for leaving it intact.
The details surrounding the destruction of Jericho City IV thus closely parallel what we read in the Bible. Unfortunately, the date of the fall of this city remains a problem. If, as Watzinger and Kenyon aregued, Jericho fell around 1550 B.C., there would have been no significant city there when Joshua arrived around 1400 B.C. Nevertheless, however one deals with the chronological problem, there is much about City IV to encourage the Christian reader about the reliablity of the Joshua 6 account.
NIV Archaeological Study Bible, Zondervan, 2005
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Mattathias
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| eleven wrote: | | NIV Archaeological Study Bible, Zondervan, 2005 |
I doubt that this is the recent news that ChristianWoman referred to in her post (I guess she will tell us if it is or it isn't) but thank you for posting it. 
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ChristianWoman1
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Joined: 22 May 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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good post eleven...
maybe what I heard just yesterday isn't new? hmm...I can't find it right now on-line, but I did come across this which is good news too:
http://www.ucgstp.org/lit/gn/gn039/jericho.html
I'll keep looking , but I don't have much time on the internet tonight...
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Mattathias
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting article. (I vaguely remember the BAR issue they reference.) Thanks for posting it for us.
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