Jericho's claim to fame is the way it was captured by Joshua. As the Lord commanded, he and the children of Israel marched around the city once a day for six days. On the seventh, after a blast of trumpets and a mighty shout, the walls came tumbling down.* This happened about 1370 B.C., but it was a comparatively recent episode in the long history of Jericho.
Modern Jericho is a grubby Jordanian town, 17 miles northeast of Jerusalem, built among the heaped remains of many earlier Jerichos. Archaeologists burrow into the ruins with insatiable...
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