What really stood out to me from this lesson was the short documentary that touched on the city of Jericho and how it fell-down. I found myself reminiscing on the song I learned years ago about Joshua fighting the battle at Jericho and the walls come tumbling down as I watched the video referencing Jericho. But in all reality, the structure of Jericho might have come down because of seismic activity years before Joshua was ever there. What I wonder is if the inhabitants of ancient Jericho might have attributed the seismic activity to an act of Godly intervention? It is interesting to see how archaeologists have found this action and figured out how the walls fell and when this happened. Through cross-referencing remains that were at the same level as pieces that fell is a way that the archaeologist could have referenced when this happened. Furthermore, they could do carbon-dating on the physical remains and DNA tests on the human remains, thus double-checking the resources to which the walls might have fallen. What is even more interesting is the comparison to the bible stories and the dates of when these happened as well. Joshua must have come in at some point to Jericho, but was this battle as dramatic as it has been put up to in the Bible and how did this become a huge event as written by the author?
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