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The face of the famous plastered Jericho skull, found with an ancient facial reconstruction as one of the Neolithic ritual practices, has had a realistic modern-day upgrade.
Fictitious. >> yes, there are some battles. yes, there's some killing. but overall, they're coming in and they're living side by side with some of the canaanites. >> this sounds radical, but when i talk to most people they're relieved. the genocide that is god's will, yahweh's 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 team was invited to the graduation ceremony for jonathan friedland and his elite unit of the ...
For better or for worse. however you view that kind of image. whether that's one of excitement and action or that's one of hey, this is war, and war can be ugly. >> reporter: in this war the bible makes clear that no prisoners should be taken alive. every man, woman, and child should be slaughtered. and according to the bible, this bloody battle was just the first stop on joshua's campaign. >> now, according to the book of joshua, the israelite troops invaded en masse from transjordan and in a period probably of a few months conquered the whole land of canaan, expelled or slaughtered the canaa...
It's the story of wandering for 40 years, joshua's more action-packed. this is where they come on in and they take over. ♪ fought the battle of jericho >> reporter: as told in the book of joshua the conquest of canaan has all the trappings of a summer blockbuster. ♪ and the walls came tumbling down ♪ >> sounds like a movie. it's an action-packed scene. >> reporter: with the ark of the covenant leading the way, joshua crossed the river jordan with his army. >> i'm sure this is an elite fighting force. >> reporter: the conquest of jericho is one in which god is clearly in the role of a div...