The Walls of Jericho || Bible Stories || Joshua and the walls of Jericho ||

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:38:00 +0000

The Walls of Jericho || Animated Bible Stories || Joshua and the walls of Jericho ||

The Battle of Jericho is an incident from the Book of Joshua, being the first battle fought by the Israelites in the course of the conquest of Canaan. According to Joshua 6:1–27, the walls of Jericho fell after the Israelites marched around the city walls once a day for six days and seven times on the seventh day then blew their trumpets. Excavations at Tell es-Sultan, the biblical Jericho, have failed to substantiate this story, which has its origins in the nationalist propaganda of much later kings of Judah and their claims to the territory of the Kingdom of Israel. The lack of archaeological evidence and the composition history and theological purposes of the Book of Joshua has led archaeologists like William G. Dever to characterize the story of the fall of Jericho as "invented out of whole cloth".

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