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Jericho's walls fell before Joshua
In the 1950s, archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon showed that Jericho's great walls were built centuries before Joshua's era.
Later generations wrote their story onto older ruins.
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There is little evidence of a unified conquest of Canaan. Most archaeologists now think early Israelites largely emerged from local populations or migrated peacefully, with conflict growing only as communities expanded.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 49–50
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