Word: jerichos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...metallic surface of the Dead Sea. In a room of the community, the elders took council; they were sure that the men of darkness would soon be upon the Children of Light. Reports had come that Vespasian's legionaries, clanking up the road from Caesarea, were already at Jericho, less than seven miles to the north. Before they moved on Jerusalem, the Romans would surely fall upon the Community by the Dead Sea. Perhaps then, at last, the prophesied messiah would appear...
...names (June Allyson and Jack Lemmon), and the new people give it all they've got. But somehow the second night in that tourist cabin, like the start of a second honeymoon, is not quite the same as the first-especially when those well-known "walls of Jericho" go tumbling down...
Tumbling Walls. At the turn of the century, a German-Austrian expedition uncovered ancient Jericho, and by 1936, explorations had proceeded far enough for a British expedition to determine that the walls of Jericho had indeed fallen with great violence. Reported Expedition Leader John Garstang: "The space between the two walls is filled with fragments and rubble. There are clear traces of a tremendous fire." Says the Bible: "When the priests blew with the trumpets . . . and the people shouted with a great shout ... the wall fell down flat ... and they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein...
...Talal was an un happy, unstable man who beat Hussein's mother and denounced his own father Abdullah as a British puppet. The old King took to the young princeling. Hussein galloped on his blooded Arabian mare through the hills of his grandfather's summer place near Jericho, and hunted small game with the rifle that Abdullah had given him. One of his grandfather's aides taught him to fence with a scimitar in the slashing Arab style. "My boy," said the King, "I want you to come always to me and try to learn what...
...Scrolls, the first of which were located in 1947 about nine miles south of Jericho, include the oldest Biblical manuscripts ever found. Among them are Old Testament books in Hebrew and Aramaic, Biblical commentary, and ritual documents of the Essenes, the religious sect which apparently owned the Scrolls. The commentary and rituals described in the parchments comprise about two thirds of the writings. The Old Testament works, one third by volume, are significant because they largely verify current Biblical text. The rest, which shed light on the curious Essene sect, are the subject of the recent controversy...