Eric Meyers
speaker
2,596 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2d ago
Eric Meyers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Ark, with its mysterious and deadly power, is central to the ritual that God tells Joshua will result in the fall of the impregnable city.
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And indeed, the Bible states that on the seventh day, after circling the city seven times, while the priests blow rams' horns,
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The walls do miraculously collapse.
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The Israelites rush in, destroy the city, and spare only Rahav and her family.
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Given the nature of the story, it's no wonder that it has captivated generations of historians and archaeologists alike.
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all trying to ascertain whether there is any verifiable proof of the biblical account.
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The first task was to find Jericho.
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Its location is about a mile north of the modern day city center.
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But the man who discovered it, Charles Warren, is an intriguing figure.
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Warren was not primarily an archaeologist, he was a Royal Engineers officer, whose early work included surveying Gibraltar's fortifications.
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He developed a reputation for precision surveying, engineering skill, and topographical mapping.
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Between eighteen sixty seven and eighteen seventy, he carried out the first systematic explorations of the Temple Mount and the topography of ancient Jerusalem.
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At the time, it was this work that made Warren famous.
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His work at Jericho was a mere brief exploratory visit.
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In the 1880s, he would become the Commissioner of Police in London and lead the unsuccessful investigation into Jack the Ripper.
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But people have questioned the methods he used in both of these jobs.
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We may be able to thank him for finding Jericho.
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But even calling Warren an archaeologist is generous by later standards.
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This isn't a problem unique to him.
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In the 1860s, archaeology barely existed as a science.
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