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Note: I added this post for future reference; i.e. talking purposes, although archaeologists have concluded that Jericho was destroyed long before the Israelites allegedly entered the “promise land”. The value of the article is that the author points out one of the many issues with the lack of vowels in early Hebrew. This post contains […]
Continue ReadingThe italicised paragraphs below are from Why Do People Build Walls? The Real Story of Jericho Offers a Surprising Answer by Ian Volner May 30, 2019. The reformatting into a bullet list is by this web guy. After several centuries of habitation, the community that had built the first wall disappeared from the area. Subsequent […]
Continue ReadingHere are two ChatGPT responses that provide scholars and their findings about the historicity of Joshua 6 and the collapse of the walls and killing all men, women, children, and animals. Below the first response are two more prompts: First Prompt: Provide info on Kathleen Kenyon’s work at Jericho revealing no evidence of city walls […]
Continue ReadingIn addition to the below, see Jericho’s Conquest per Scholars on this site. From OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com The Conquest of Jericho The story of the conquest of Jericho is found in Joshua 6. According to the narrative, God commands the Israelites, led by Joshua, to march around the city for seven […]
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