Aerial view of the Tel of Jericho. PD

Jericho (Tel es-Sultan)

Liberty Excavation Reports Requirements

INDEX of Sites

• Maura Sala, “Khirbet Kerak Ware from Tell es–Sultan/ancient Jericho: a reassessment in the light of the finds of the Italian–Palestinian Expedition (1997–2000),”in J. Cardoba – M. Molist – M. C. Pérez – I. Rubio – S. Marta­nez (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Madrid2008, 111–133. LINK
• Nigro, Lorenzo.“Tell Es–Sultan – A Pilot Project for Archaeology in Palestine,” in  The Ancient Near East Today 2 no. 3 (March 2014): n.p. WEBSITE
• Nigro, Lorenzo.“Tell es–Sultan/Jericho and the Origins of Urbanization in the Lower Jordan Valley: Results of Recent Archaeological Researches,”in P. Matthiae et al. (eds.), 6 ICAANE. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. 5 May – 10 May 2008,“Sapienza,” Universita  di Roma, Roma 2010, Vol. 2, 459–481. LINK
• Nigro, Lorenzo,  H. Taha.“Renewed Excavations and Restorations at Tell es–Sultan/Ancient Jericho. Fifth Season – March–April 2009,” in Scienze dell’Antichita 15 (2009): 733–744. LINK
• Nigro, Lorenzo. “When the Walls Tumble Down. Jericho: Rise and Collapse of an Early Bronze Age Palestinian City.” In Le Ragioni Del Cambiamento. Reason for Changes. “Nascita,”“declino” E “crollo” Delle Società Tra Fine Del IV E Inizio Del I Millennio a.C.,edited by R. Peroni and A. Cardarelli, 173–92. Scienze dell’Antichità 15. Rome: Università degli studi di Roma, 2009. LINK
• Nigro, Lorenzo, “The Built Tombs on the Spring Hill and The Palace of the Lords of Jericho in the Middle Bronze Age,”in J.D. Schloen (ed.), Exploring the longue durée.Essays in Honor of Lawrence E. Stager, Winona Lake, In. 2009, pp. 361–376. LINK
• Nigro, Lorenzo. “Expedition To Palestine and Jordan Results Of The Italian–Palestinian Expedition To Tell Es–Sultan: At The Dawn Of Urbanization In Palestine,”In Tell Es–Sultan/Jericho in the Context of the Jordan Valley: Site Management, Conservation, and Sustainable Development, edited by Lorenzo Nigro and Hamdan Taha, 1–40. Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine and Transjordan 2. Rome: University of Rome,“La Sapienza,”2006. LINKAn excellent survey of the first part of their excavation with over 50 photographs and site maps.
• Nigro, Lorenzo.“Tell es–Sultan in the Early Bronze Age IV (2300–2000 BC). Settlement vs Necropolis – A Stratigraphic Periodization,”in Contributi e Materiali di Archeologia Orientale IX (2003): 121–158. LINK
• Nigro, Lorenzo.“Results of the Italian-Palestinian Expedition to Tel Es-Sutan,”Academia, February 2005, 1-40.
• Nigro, Lorenzo, Nicolo Marchetti, Jihad Yassin.“Second season of excavations of the Italian – Palestinian expedition at Tell es–Sultan/Jericho, October – November 1998,”in Orient – Express1 (1999): 17–20. LINK
• Nigro, Lorenzo,  Nicolo Marchetti, Hamdan Taha.“Preliminary report on the second season of excavations of the Italian–Palestinian Expedition at Tell es–Sultan/Jericho, 1998,” in P. Matthiae – A. Enea – L. Peyronel – F. Pinnock (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Roma 2000, 867–881, pls. 1–24. LINK
• Nigro, Lorenzo, Nicolo Marchetti, Jihad Yassin, and M. Ghayada. “Third Season of Excavations of the Italian – Palestinian Expedition at Tell Es–Sultan/Jericho, October – November 1999,” Orient – Express4 (2000): 82–84. LINK
• Nigro, Lorenzo,  Nicolo Marchetti, Issa Sarie'.“Preliminary report on the first season of excavations of the Italian–Palestinian Expedition at Tell es–Sultan/Jericho, April–May 1997,” in Palestine Exploration Quarterly 130 (1998): 121–144. LINK

• Brule, Annie,  Munish Dabas, Amy Guthrie, and Nikhil Kumar, “Jericho,”Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. LINK
• Bienkowski, Piotr. “Jericho Was Destroyed in the Middle Bronze Age, Not the Late Bronze Age,” Biblical Archaeology Review 16, no. 5 (1990): 45–46, 69. LOOKUPSee Wood's careful response. Wood, Bryant G. “Dating Jericho’s Destruction: Bienkowski Is Wrong on All Counts,” Biblical Archaeology Review 16, no. 5 (Sep/Oct 1990): 45, 47–49, 68–69. LOOKUP
• Davis, Miriam C. Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land. Wallnut Creek, Calf.: Left Coast, 2008.  Google Look Inside  Biography of Kenyon who dug Jericho.
• Dumbrell, W. J., 1985. “Jericho,” Major Cities of the Biblical World, Ed. R. K. Harrison (Nashille: Nelson), 131–38.
• Garstang, John, and J. B. E. Garstang. The Story of Jericho. New revised edition. London, U.K.: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1948.
• Graves, David E. “God’s Sovereignty Expressed in the Conquest of Jericho,” Key Themes of the Old Testament: A Survey of Major Theological Themes (Moncton, N.B.: Electronic Christian Media, 2013), 211–16. Look InsideGood up to date information.
• Graves, David E. “Jericho,” Biblical Archaeology Vol. 1: An Introduction with Recent Discoveries That Support the Reliability of the Bible. Moncton, N.B.: Electronic Christian Media, 2014, 148–52.
  Google Look Inside
• Grisanti  Michael A. “Recent Archaeological Discoveries That Lend Credence to the Historicity Of The Scriptures,”Journal of Evangelical Theological Society 56 no. 3 (2013): 475–97. PDFGood up to date information.
• Kaiser, Walter C. History of Israel. Nashville, Tenn.: Broadman & Holman, n.d. 151–154. LINK
• Kelso, James L. “New Testament Jericho,”Biblical Archaeologist 14, no. 2 (1951): 34–43.
• Kenyon, Kathleen M.  “Early Jericho,”Antiquity, 26 (1952): 116-22. ProQuest
• Wood, Bryant G. “Did the Israelites conquer Jericho? A New Look at the Archaeological Evidence,” Biblical Archaeology Review 16 no. 2 (1990): 44–59. Look up in BAR
• Wood, Bryant G. “Dating Jericho’s Destruction: Bienkowski Is Wrong on All Counts,” Biblical Archaeology Review 16, no. 5 (Sep/Oct 1990): 45, 47–49, 68–69.Look up in BAR

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:

• Alden, Robert L. “Jericho: Archaeology,” In Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible, 4 Vol. edited by Walter A Elwell and Barry J Beitzel, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1997, 2:1119–1120. 
• Archer, Gleason Leonard. “Has not the Joshua 6 account of the capture of Jericho by the Israelites been discredited by the modern archaeological investigations at Tell es–Sultan?,” Page 153 in Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1982. PDF
•  Bartlett, J. R., 1982. Jericho. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
• Bernard Reich and David H. Goldberg, “Jericho,”Historical Dictionary of Israel. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. LINK
• Brisco, T. V., 1990. “Ancient Jericho,” BI 40–49.
• Callaway, J. A., 1966. “Jericho (Old Testament),” BW, 305–9.
• Coughenour, R. A., 1995 “Jericho,”  ISBE², 2:992–96.
• Dever, W. G., 1984. “Jericho,” MDB, 438–40.
• DeVries, L. F., 2006. “Jericho,” in CBW, 189–96.
• Easton, Matthew G. “Jericho,”Illustrated Bible Dictionary,Third Edition, Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson, 1897. WEB or BST  
• Easton, Matthew G. “Jericho,”The New Easton Bible Dictionary, Edited by David E. Graves. Toronto, Ont.: Electronic Christian Media, 2016, 306-307.
• Elwell, W. A., 1988. “Jericho,” BEB, 1:1118–20.
• Gibson, Shimon, and Nachman Avigad.“Jericho,” Pages 137–39 in Encyclopaedia Judaica. Edited by Fred Skolnik and Michael Berenbaum. New York, N.Y.: MacMillan, 2006. LINK
• ______. “Jericho (Place),” Page 723–37 in Vol. 3. Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 Vols. Edited by David Noel Freedman, Gary A. Herion, David F. Graf, and John David Pleins. New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1996.  
• Graybill, J. B., 1987. “Jericho,” NIDB, 509–12.
• Holland, T. A., 1992. “Jericho,” ABD, 3:723–37.
• Holland, T. A., 1997. “Jericho,” OEANE, 3:220–24.
• Jacobs, Paul F. “Jericho,”In Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, edited by David Noel Freedman, Allen C. Myers, and Astrid B. Beck. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2000. 
• Jamieson, H., 1975. “Jericho,” ZPEB, 3:451–55. 
• Joines, K., 2003. “Jericho,” HolBD, 759–64.
• Kelso, J. L., 1984. “Jericho,” IDB, 2:835–39.
• Kenyon, K. M.,  1993. “Jericho,” NEAEHL, 2:674–81.
• Kenyon, K. M., 1975. “Jericho,” EAEHL, 2550–64.
• Kitchen, K. A., “Jericho,” Pages 563-64 in New Bible Dictionary. Edited by I. Howard Marshall, Alan R. Millard, J. I. Packer, and D. J. Wiseman. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1996.
• Landes, G. M., 1976. “Jericho,” IDBSup, 472–73. 
• Lussier, E. “Jericho,”In The New Catholic Encyclopedia,edited by Thomas Carson, 755–757. 2nd ed. Detroit, Mich.: Gale, 2003. LINK
• Negev, Avraham, and Shimon Gibson, eds. “Jericho,” "Jericho, Herodian,”page 256–260inArchaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land. New rev., and updated. 1 vols. New York, N.Y.: Continuum International, 2001.
• Pfeiffer, Charles F., ed. “Jericho (New Testament),”pages 303–305 in Wycliffe Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2000.
• Pfeiffer, Charles F., ed. “Jericho (Old Testament),”pages 305–309 in Wycliffe Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2000. No mention of Bryant Wood's research.
• Smith, William. “Jericho,”Smith's Bible Dictionary. London: John Murray, 1901. LINK
• S., E. B. “Jericho,”In The Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia, edited by Charles F Pfeiffer, Howard Frederic Vos, and John Rea. Chicago, Ill.: Moody, 2005. 
• Schoville, K. N., 1978. “Jericho,” BAF, 391–99.
• Thompson, J. A., 1983. “Jericho,” NIDBA, 258–61.
• Toombs, L. E., 1996. “Jericho,” HBD, 458–61.
• Tucker, Spencer C. “Jericho,” Page 540 in The Encyclopedia of the Arab–Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by Spencer C. Tucker and Priscilla Roberts. Santa Barbara, Calf.: ABC–CLIO, 2008. LINK