The Story of Jericho Author:Garstang, John and J.B.E. Garstang Back cover of (completely intact dust jacket) is a graphic image, which wraps around from the front. This was a library edition from a church. Inside flap description reads: "The Story of Jericho suggest a subject full of fascination and interest. What was this doomed city and what its history? Above all, what truth is there in the stragne story... more » of its fall which is preserved imperishably in the Bible? In this book, Professor John Garstang, the famous archaelogoist relates with his son the tale of its vicissitudes which he has himself recoverd from its ruins. Archaeological evience may easily make dull and tedious reading. Here it is presented with a fresness and imaginative vigor which invests it with all the warmth of an age-long romance, whilst recording the facts with impartial and scientific precision. A concluding chapter connects the fall of Jericho with the awe-inspiring events of the Exodus, and shows clearly how the same super-human forces which brought Israel out of Egypt wrought for them the crowning miracle of the Jordan Valley.« less