Joshua 24 as Poetic Narrative

by William T. Koopmans

Book Overview

Joshua 24 has long been recognized as a crucial chapter for source-critical studies and for the reconstruction of Israel's early history. The present volume summarizes and evaluates previous (often contradictory) efforts to explain Joshua 24 on the basis of literary criticism, the role of covenant concepts in Israel's history writing, form-critical comparisons with treaty texts, archaeological approaches to the Shechem traditions, structural analysis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567293874
• ISBN13: 9780567293879
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 522 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"