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- From: jlove@ivrit.ra.itd.umich.edu (Jack Love)
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- Subject: Re: First city and longest continuously inhabited city?
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 14:45:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.071052.22805@u.washington.edu> wcalvin@stein.u.washington.edu (William Calvin) writes:
- >> Jerico also has, I believe, the dubious distinction of being the
- >>first city to be destroyed by conquest. (Can't remember the reference.)
- >Jericho was always getting destroyed; there are about four major
- >earthquakes per century in that rift valley (where the African and Arabian
- >plates meet), and sometimes the attacks on the city coincided with one
- >(Josha?). But there are springs in the hillside above the modern city,
- >and so settlements there were always rebuilt. There are some older
- >settlements in Turkey, closer to 12,000 years old, but not continuously
- >inhabited.
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- I agree with the above, but what is quite fascinating is the fact that
- although there are, as you indicated, several destruction layers,
- *none* of them seem to correspond to the period of Joshua. (What no
- trumpets?) This has led to an ongoing battle (sorry) over the subject
- of the veracity of the Biblical material regarding the conquest of the
- territory by the Israelite tribes.
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