Biblical Views: Giants at Jericho
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Footnotes
See Piotr Bienkowski, “Jericho Was Destroyed in the Middle Bronze Age, Not the Late Bronze Age,” BAR 16:05.
See Ronald Hendel, Biblical Views: “Is There a Biblical Archaeology?” BAR 32:04.
See Ronald Hendel, “When the Sons of God Cavorted with the Daughters of Men,” Bible Review 03:02.
Endnotes
See also Thomas Holland, “Jericho,” in Eric Meyers, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, vol. 3 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997), p. 223. Bryant Wood has tried—unsuccessfully—to redate the destruction of Jericho to around 1400 B.C.E.: see “Dating Jericho’s Destruction: Bienkowski Is Wrong on All Counts,” BAR 16:05, pp. 45–49. In any case, this date would still be at least 150 years too early for a possible connection with the early Israelites.
G.E. Wright, “Troglodytes and Giants in Palestine,” Journal of Biblical Literature 57 (1938), p. 308.