Jericho Map - Bible Odyssey
WEBThe Jericho of the Hebrew Bible is located on the modern-day mound known as Tell es-Sultan. Most references to Jericho in the New Testament refer to the area southwest of Tell es-Sultan that developed around a huge palace complex first built by the Hasmoneans and later rebuilt and expanded by Herod the Great.
The Road to Jericho - Bible Odyssey
WEBJericho, with its flourishing oasis, was a strategic crossroads in the road network of ancient Palestine. The road leading to and from Jericho—used by merchants, armies, and pilgrims—has been important throughout history.
Jericho - Bible Odyssey
WEBJericho is mentioned more than one hundred times in the Bible, often as a symbol of peace and wealth. Most famously, Josh 6 describes Jericho as an important Canaanite city that the Israelites conquer upon their arrival in the promised land.
Jericho - Bible Odyssey
WEBA city in the Jordan Valley six miles north of the Dead Sea. Jericho first appears in the biblical record in connection with the Israelite conquest of Canaan.
Israel and Judah Map - Bible Odyssey
WEBTerritorial boundaries expanded and contracted over time as Israel and Judah engaged in conflict with one another and their neighbors. Evidence from outside the Bible suggests that Israel was more powerful than Judah. However, Israel was the more ephemeral kingdom of …
The Walls of Jericho - Bible Odyssey
WEBThe walls of Jericho collapsed at the sounds of the people shouting and the ram’s horns of Joshua’s army (Josh 6:20). Their fall echoed through history, making the site of ancient Jericho, at present-day Tell es-Sultan, one of the first places to be explored during the pioneering era of biblical archaeology.
Kathleen Kenyon and Jericho - Bible Odyssey
WEBAs the newly appointed director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, Kenyon initiated a new excavation project at Jericho in 1952 and found that Garstang’s dates for the destruction of the site’s fortifications had been grossly wrong.
Site Identification: The Case of Jericho - Bible Odyssey
WEBSite Identification: The Case of Jericho. Margreet L. Steiner. The identification of Tell es-Sultan as biblical Jericho is uncertain, as the dating of the archaeological remains does not fit the supposed dating of the biblical conquest stories. Methods of Interpretation, Places.
The Walls of Jericho - Bible Odyssey
WEBThe famous walls of Jericho are at the heart of the story of the Israelites’ conquest of Canaan, but no archaeological evidence corroborates the biblical account.
Qumran Map - Bible Odyssey
WEBKhirbet Qumran is the Arabic name for a site situated along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea approximately 10 miles south of Jericho. At this location, in the late 1940s, a young Bedouin shepherd stumbled upon what is arguably the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls.