Esempi dal corpus di testo per Walls of Jericho
1. They say it‘s akin to Israelites circling the walls of Jericho – and Muslims swirling around the Ka‘ba shrine in Mecca.
2. "It is not about A–level knowledge of a particular subject, it is a more general sense of the web of understanding that binds us to a common understanding of the past." She said it was harder to teach students who were unable to pick up on references such as the Biblical story of the Israelites destroying the walls of Jericho.
3. In recent years, possible scientific explanations have also been proposed for several other Bible stories, including Noah‘s flood (seawater surging from the Mediterranean into the Black Sea as glaciers melted at the end of the last Ice Age) and Joshua‘s destruction of the walls of Jericho (an earthquake). The reaction yesterday among biblical scholars to Nof‘s theory ranged from bemused detachment to real irritation.
4. "The Walls Of Jericho, where I grab the guy‘s legs and turn him over to put pressure on his back; the Codebreaker, where I jump up and stick my knees in his face and yank his head down so his face hits my knees; and the Lion–sault, which is a back–flip from the rope over the top of the other guy." But isn‘t it all rather dangerous?