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8/9/2019 Rahab - Accompanying Slides for Lesson
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Jericho
Shittim
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Jericho
Shittim
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Jericho may be the world's oldest city: it dates back to Neolithic times, to 8000BC.
The site had the main ingredients needed for an important city:
an abundant water supply, good climate and a central location
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The city had a stone revetment
wall at the base of the tel, and
this wall held a high rampart in
place. Above the rampart was a
mud brick wall which was the
outer wall of the city.
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Rahab may have lived in one of these houses on the
sloping rampart between the revetment wall encircling
the bottom of the hill and the city wall above it.
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