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I'm not familiar with a lot of these, but I am with the following...
> The story of the =93Walls of Jericho=94 also was considered for many=20
> years as a fairy tale until Professor John Garstang found one of=20
> the most emazing discoveries of the century as he writes: =93As to=20
> the main fact, then, there remains no doubt: the walls fell=20
> outwards so completely that the attackers would be able to clamber=20
> up and over their ruins into the city.=94. While all digs confirm an=20
> inward falling of any excavated city as armies pushed the walls,=20
> the only walls found to be pushed outwards was the walls of=20
> Jericho. Yet confirming the Bible in the Book of Joshua chapter 6=20
> verse 20 which read: =93And the walls fell down flat, so the people=20
> went up into the city every man straight ahead, and they took the=20
> city.=94. To confirm check:(John Garstang, Joshua=20
> Judges,[London:Constable,1931]).
Note the date on this. 1931. What the apologists won't talk about is
Kathleen Kenyon's excavation of Jericho in 1955, which came to _quite_
a different conclusion. Basically, Garstang was either inept, or lying.
His own partner disputed his findings!
Check out the following page:
http://www.infidels.org/./library/modern/jeff_lowder/jury/chap4.html
This page also covers a little bit about Glueck, who the author of
the article you quoted seems to think quite highly of. Apparently,
his reputation among real archaeologists isn't nearly as good as
it is with fundamentalists.
Imagine that.
jason
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"The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote=20
like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go withou=
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restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody."
BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiner=
s/