There is a Sound Series, Jericho - the Old Testament

Shidonna Raven
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By John F. Guilmartin

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Old Testament Jericho has been identified in the mound known as Tall Al-Sulṭān (Tell es-Sultan; at the source of the copious spring ʿAyn Al-Sulṭān), which rises 70 feet (21 metres) above the surrounding plain; the site was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2023. A number of major archaeological expeditions have worked at the site, notably in 1952–58 under Kathleen M. Kenyon, director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem; one of the main objectives has been to establish the date of the town’s destruction by the Israelites—a matter of importance for the chronology of the Israelite entry into Canaan. Most of the town of the period, including the whole circuit of the town walls, has been removed by erosion; enough survives to show only that there was a town of the period.

This may have been destroyed in the second half of the 14th century BCE, but evidence is too scanty for precision. The site was then abandoned until the Iron Age. Little trace has been found of the 9th-century-BCE occupation attributed to Hiel, but there was a sizable settlement in the 7th century BCE, ending perhaps at the time of the second Babylonian Exile in 586 BCE. The site was then finally abandoned, and the later Jerichos grew up elsewhere.

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