The Battle of Jericho, located in Tell es-Sultan, was documented in what book of the Bible?
Battle of Jericho According to the Book of Joshua, the Battle of Jericho was the first battle of the Israelites in their conquest of Canaan. According to , the walls of Jericho fell after Joshua's Israelite army marched around the city blowing their trumpets. Excavations at Tell es-Sultan, the biblical Jericho, have failed to produce data to substantiate the biblical story, and scholars are virtually unanimous that the Book of Joshua holds little historical value.
Ezra Ezra ( ; Hebrew: עזרא‎ , "Ezra "; fl. 480–440 BCE), also called Ezra the Scribe (, "Ezra ha-Sofer ") and Ezra the Priest in the Book of Ezra, was a Jewish scribe and a priest. In Greco-Latin Ezra is called Esdras (Greek: Ἔσδρας ). According to the Hebrew Bible he was a descendant of Seraiah ( ) the last High Priest to serve in the First Temple ( ), and a close relative of Joshua the first High Priest of the Second Temple ( CJB and similar translations only; see also ). He returned from Babylonian exile and reintroduced the Torah in Jerusalem ( and ). According to 1 Esdras, a Greek translation of the Book of Ezra still in use in Eastern Orthodoxy, he was also a High Priest. Rabbinic tradition holds that he was only a common priest.