Abstract
Greenspoon talks about the walls of Jericho from the Greek and Hebrew texts of the Book of Joshua. He notes that it's the very word Jericho that draws attention in the popular press, which is attracted to the sounds of music that caused the walls to tumble. The case in a Washington Post review of a biography of jazz great John Coltrane, says that some listeners attached religious significance to Coltrane and his music, making him a kind of martyr, as if he were shaking the walls of Jericho and breaking the shackles of bondage with the sound of his horn. Moreover, Greenspoon argues that the image of tumbling walls can also be invoked for a seemingly endless series of causes. Thus, Canada's National Post chronicles the activities of an American who has launched a Pray at the Pump group to ask God to bring down gas prices, just as the ancient Hebrews called for divine intervention to bring down the walls of Jericho.