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191 view as encompassing as that seen by the archaeologists who stood atop Tell Ghassul. The crossing itself, under the leadership of Joshua, entailed the miraculous backing up of the Jordan's waters, under the influence of the Holy Ark and its contents. It was then, "when Joshua was by Jericho, that he raised his eyes and lo and behold, there stood a man opposite him and his drawn sword in his hand; and Joshua went unto him and said unto him: "Art thou with us or with our ene- mies'?' and he said: ‘Neither; a captain of the host of the Lord am L' And Joshua fell on his face to the ground and bowed, and said unto him: 'What sayeth my lord unto his servant?’ and the captain of the host of Yahweh said unto Joshua: 'Remove thy shoe off thy foot, for the place where thou standeth is restricted.’ Then the captain of the troops of Yahweh divulged to him the Lord's plan for the conquest of Jericho. Do not attempt to storm its walls by force, he said. Instead, carry the Ark of the Covenant around its walls seven times. And on the seventh day the priests sounded the trumpets, and the people let out a great cry, as they were commanded. "And the walls of Jericho came tumbling down." Jacob, too, crossing the Jordan at night on his return to Canaan from Harran, ran into "a man" and the two wrestled till dawn: only then did Jacob realize that his opponent was a deity; "and Ja- cob called the place Peni-El ("The Face of God') for I had seen a god face to face and have survived." Indeed, the Old Testament clearly states that there had been in earlier times settlements of the Anunnaki at the vital approaches to the Sinai peninsula and Jerusalem. Hebron, the city guarding the route between Jerusalem and the Sinai, "was called earlier Kiryat Arba ("Stronghold of Arba"); a Great Man ("king") among the Anakim he was" (Joshua, 14:15). The descendants of the Anakim, we are further told, were still residing in the area during the Isra- elite conquest of Canaan; and there are numerous other biblical ref- erences to abodes of the Anakim on the east side of the Jordan. Who were these Anakim? The term is commonly translated "giants," just as the biblical term Nefilim had been translated. But we have already shown conclusively that by Nefilim ("Those Who Had Come Down") the Old Testament had referred to the "People of the Rocketships." The Anakim, we suggest, were none other than the Anunnaki. No one had hitherto paid any particular attention to the count of 3,650 years which Manetho assigned to the reign of the "demi- Peace on Earth