violently destroyed with the walls collapsing and fire sweeping over the city—findings which describe well the Biblical account of the destruction of Jericho. But though this finding can be dated to around the time of Joshua, critics insist it was not that time; but rather this destruction of Jericho was a result of an attack by some Egyptian dynasty at an earlier time. Such rejection of the obvious reminds us of those who reject Noah’s flood yet admit that the earth gives considerable evidence of