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Israelites came into the promised land. but its unlikely that this is actually how it happened. >> people forget that there are two versions of the so-called conquest of canaan in the hebrew bible. >> the book of joshua suggests a blitzkrieg. its a form of mass colonialism, massive slaughter. its horrible. and then we have the story of judges, a gradual infiltration into the sparsely populated hill country, do we want the blitzkrieg model or do we want the gradual settlement model. >> the questi...

Probably of a few months conquered the whole land of canaan, expelled or slaughtered the canaanites, divided up the whole land among the 12 tribes, then joshua gives a sermon at the end, and its all over. >> reporter: jericho is a highlight now on most holy land tours. the pilgrims are drawn here by the violent version of how the israelites came into the promised land. but its unlikely that this is actually how it happened. >> people forget that there are two versions of the so-called conquest o...

Transjordan and in a period probably of a few months conquered the whole land of canaan, expelled or slaughtered the canaanites, divided up the whole land among the 12 tribes, then joshua gives a sermon at the end, and its all over. >> reporter: jericho is a highlight now on most holy land tours. the pilgrims are drawn here by the violent version of how the israelites came into the promised land. but its unlikely that this is actually how it happened. >> people forget that there are two versions...

Sparsely populated hill country. do we want the blitzkrieg model or the gradual settlement model? >> the question is what do we believe? what do we think happened? >> the archaeology lends support to the less dramatic and gentler account. >> of all the years when jericho was inhabited, the one period where we wanted it to be inhabited so joshua can attack it, theres nobody living there. its empty. theres no wall for joshua to knock down. >> to put it bluntly, the book of joshua is almost all fic...

Israelites came into the promised land. but its unlikely that this is actually how it happened. >> people forget that there are two versions of the so-called conquest in the bible. >> the book of joshua suggests a blitzkrieg. its a form of mass colonialism, massive slaughter. its horrible. and then we have the story of judges. the story of a gradual infiltration into the sparsely populated hill country. do we want the blitzkrieg model or the gradual settlement model? >> the question is what do w...