Eric Meyers
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first heard Jun 2026
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Eric Meyers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Using this technique, she concluded that the destruction of Jericho's walls happened in roughly 1550 BCE, centuries before the biblical conquest.
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Her conclusion was that the Jericho of the time of Joshua was not a fortified city at all.
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The famous walls had fallen long before the Israelites arrived.
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This conclusion remains dominant among modern archaeologists even as techniques continue to improve.
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There was a walled city of Jericho.
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But it was destroyed before the biblical account.
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And so debate today centers not on if Jericho was destroyed, that much seems to be verifiable, but when the destruction occurred.
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By the time Joshua arrived,
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Was there even a walled city to besiege?
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The most widely accepted explanation today is that the Bible story is a cultural memory of a real ancient catastrophe.
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Jericho's great destruction most likely did happen and was so dramatic that it was remembered for generations.
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Then, centuries later, when the Israelite identity was forming, this event was absorbed, theologized, and retold.
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It then became the story we now read in the Bible.
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Much as Homer reshaped the fall of Troy into epic poetry.
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But of course, there are still historians that believe there is evidence for the biblical account.
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Either way, what cannot be doubted is the importance of the story of Jericho's fall.
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It continues to resonate to this day.
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Whether it happened in the way the Bible describes or not.
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Because while the walls of Jericho may or may not have literally fallen to the sounds of trumpets,
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It's a story that shapes how millions understand courage.
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