formed church, now an Orthodox priest serving at St. George Orthodox Cathedral in Charleston,

West Virginia.

Then it happened as he was coming near Jericho.

Yes.

My question is, has in Jericho been destroyed?

Well, if you're talking about Joshua, that was about 1,200 years before this, maybe 1,400,

somewhere in there.

So this is a different city in the same spot.

This is usually referred to as Roman Jericho. All of these cities in the ancient,

in the ancient near east were built on top of each other.

Jericho wasn't to be rebuilt. You recall, wasn't it cursed and the man tried to do it?

Yes, at that time. It's not actually the identical place, but it's nearby.

And all of these agencies have layers.

So even if you go to Athens today, when they start digging in Athens, right, you've got a Byzantine layer,

you've got a Roman layer, then you've got a Greek, you know, ancient Greek layer, all the way down.

But you have those layers because that's the spot where a lot. Right. And this is not the same spot. There's a tell's called a tell that's what they call it's

basically a plattoe or a mesa it's sort of a hill with the top chopped off

plateaus and mesas are naturally occurring these were artificial they take a hill and basically

cut the top off early mountain top removal yeah Take the top of the hill off and build the

city on it because it was more defensible, right? If you have a slope coming up to the wall, it makes it

harder to assault the city. And so the tell where the Jericho that was destroyed is, is not the same

tell where this city is. They're very near each other, and they had the same name,

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