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Fictitious. >> yes, there are some battles. yes, theres some killing. but overall, theyre coming in and theyre living side by side with some of the canaanites. >> this sounds radical, but when i talk to most people theyre relieved. the genocide that is gods will, yahwehs will, never happened. >> reporter: for some the story told in the book of joshua presents a troubling picture of a violent god. but others draw a sense of mission from the very same story. a few days after we visited jericho our...

Believe? what do we actually think happened? >> reporter: the archaeology does lend some support to the less dramatic and gentler account. >> of all the years when jericho was inhabited, the one period where we want 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 fictitious. >> yes, there are some battles. yes, theres some killing. but overall, theyre coming in and t...