Word: jerichos
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...went on for three sessions, and the price slowly descended to about $5,000. Then Cross and Saad hurried into the British Bank of the Middle East, just outside Jerusalem's ancient Damascus Gate, stepped nervously out again into the teeming, clanking tangle of Arabs and animals in Jericho Road with $5,000 in Jordanian pounds, and hurried back for the final transaction...
...well were lost to history until this summer, when-after two seasons of excavation at a site called El-Jib a few miles north of Jerusalem-the pool of Gibeon began to flow again. Its discoverer: Archaeologist James B. Pritchard, who in 1951 found the palace of Herod at Jericho...
...intervention. During last fall's Sinai war, neighboring Arab states sent in forces to "protect" Jordan against possible Israeli attacks. At Mafrak, 3.000 Syrians are encamped, dedicated to the proposition that Jordan is rightly part of Greater Syria. Farther south, 5,500 Saudi troops occupy two points near Jericho, as well as the Aqaba area long claimed by Saudi Arabian kings as their own. Iraqi troops are massed along the eastern desert border. And Israel, with the most effective army of all, watches anxiously from the west...
...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...
...stamp out, indeed to persecute, those who refuse to recognize the full legitimacy of his office. This program seems to give the appropriate occasion for the crystallization of the Essene sect." Cross finds further evidence for this identification in a Qumran document that quotes Joshua's curse upon Jericho and follows it with a curse on an unnamed man and his sons who fortified a "stronghold of wickedness." Simon, while drunk, and later two of his sons were assassinated at Jericho on an inspection tour of its fortifications...