Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:56:49 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Walls of Jericho
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>Since the Lees are discussing pseudoscience, I'm
>hoping one of them can identify the author and exact
>title of a book my dad once told me about.  According
>to my dad, there is a book with a title something
>along the lines of "the day the earth stood still"
>(and no I'm not referring to the movie) where a guy
>argues that the real reason the walls of jericho fell
>down is because the earth briefly stopped moving.
>
>--cathy

Immanuel Velikovsky, though none of his books have that title.

Google, searching for "Immanuel Velikovsky" has this as the first choice =
about the old boy: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/velikovsky/

mjw