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* 1997 - Lorenzo Nigro and Nicolo Marchetti<ref name="WB">Wood and Byer, 2002</ref> | * 1997 - Lorenzo Nigro and Nicolo Marchetti<ref name="WB">Wood and Byer, 2002</ref> | ||
| − | The Sellinger and Watzinger and Kenyan excavations found that the city was unoccupied during the time that Joshua was believed to have led the Israeli armies. | + | The Sellinger and Watzinger and Kenyan excavations found that the city was unoccupied during the time that Joshua was believed to have led the Israeli armies. |
| + | Garstang concluded that it was occupied at the time. | ||
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| + | Dr. [[Byrant Wood]] reviewed Kenyan's findings and concluded that Jericho was occupied at the time of its attack as the Bible states.<ref name="WB" /><ref>Wood, 2001</ref> | ||
| + | At the moment there is no consensus in the archaeological community on when or how Jericho was destroyed. <ref>Anon., Minnesota State University</ref> | ||
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| + | However, the different conclusions are not over whether evidence was found that matched the biblical description, but over the timing.<ref name="DD">Down, 2006</ref> | ||
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| + | Findings matching the biblical description include:<ref name="DD" /> | ||
| + | * The city was overcome by a catastrophe in which a new culture replaced the previous culture at a number of locations in the area, with the incoming people not being adept at building. (The Israelites had been living in tents for forty years.) | ||
| + | * It was well-stocked with food, so the conquering of it was not by starving out the inhabitants. | ||
| + | * The city remained uninhabited for hundreds of years afterwards. | ||
| + | * The walls fell down | ||
| + | * The city was burnt | ||
== Bibliography == | == Bibliography == | ||
Revision as of 12:45, November 29, 2007
Jericho is a city in Israel by the Jordan River, and the second oldest city that has been discovered[1]. The city is mentioned extensively in the Bible.
In the book of Joshua, Jericho is taken by the Israelites with the help of God.
When the trumpets sounded, the people shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the people gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so every man charged straight in, and they took the city. Joshua 6:20
The site believed to be the ruins of the City of Jericho described in the Bible has been excavated several times:[2]
- 1868 - Charles Warren
- 1907 - Austro-German expedition under L. Sellinger and T. Watzinger
- 1930–36 - Professor John Garstang
- 1952–58 - Kathleen Kenyan
- 1997 - Lorenzo Nigro and Nicolo Marchetti[3]
The Sellinger and Watzinger and Kenyan excavations found that the city was unoccupied during the time that Joshua was believed to have led the Israeli armies. Garstang concluded that it was occupied at the time.
Dr. Byrant Wood reviewed Kenyan's findings and concluded that Jericho was occupied at the time of its attack as the Bible states.[3][4] At the moment there is no consensus in the archaeological community on when or how Jericho was destroyed. [5]
However, the different conclusions are not over whether evidence was found that matched the biblical description, but over the timing.[6]
Findings matching the biblical description include:[6]
- The city was overcome by a catastrophe in which a new culture replaced the previous culture at a number of locations in the area, with the incoming people not being adept at building. (The Israelites had been living in tents for forty years.)
- It was well-stocked with food, so the conquering of it was not by starving out the inhabitants.
- The city remained uninhabited for hundreds of years afterwards.
- The walls fell down
- The city was burnt
Bibliography
- Anon., Jericho (Minnesota State University)
- Down, David, The story of Jericho, Journal of Creation 20(1):86–92, April 2006. HTML PDF.
- Wood, Bryant and Byer, Gary, Is the Bible accurate concerning the destruction of the walls of Jericho? 2002 (Christian Answers Network).
- Wood, Bryant G., Has the biblical city and story of Jericho been verified? 2001 (Christian Answers Network).
Notes
External Links
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/biblephotos/15 Photographs of Scriptural Sites: Jericho, scriptures.lds.org