JOSHUA RETOLD

Synoptic Perspectives

A. Graeme Auld

T&T CLARK

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ISBN 0 567 08603 8

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Contents

List of Abbreviations

ORIENTATION

TEXTS

1 Joshua: The Hebrew and Greek Texts

2 Textual and Literary Studies in the Book of Joshua

3 The ‘Levitical Cities’: Texts and History

4 Cities of Refuge in Israelite Tradition

5 The Cities in Joshua 21: The Contribution of Textual Criticism

WORDS

6 A Judean Sanctuary of ‘Anat (Josh 15:59)?

7 Creation and Land: Sources and Exegesis

8 Tribal Terminology in Joshua and Judges

CONNECTIONS

9 Judges 1 and History: A Reconsideration

10 Reading Joshua After Kings

11 Joshua and 1 Chronicles

12 What Makes Judges Deuteronomistic?

INTERPRETATIONS

13 The History of Interpretation of the Book of Joshua

RE-ORIENTATION

Bibliography

Indexes

Authors Cited

Hebrew Words

Names

Subjects

Abbreviations

AASF Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae

ATD Das Alte Testatment Deutsch

ATANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments

ATSAT Arbeiten zu Text und Sprache im Alten Testament

BBB Bonner Biblische Beiträge

Bib Biblica

BK AT Biblischer Kommentar—Altes Testament

BN Biblische Notizen

BWANT Beiträge zur Wissenschaft des Alten und Neuen Testaments

BZAW Beihefte zur ZAW

CB Coniectanea Biblica

CBC Cambridge Bible Commentary

CBQ Catholic Bible Quarterly

EI Eretz Israel

EncBrit Encyclopedia Britannica

ET English Translation

FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments

HAT Handbuch zum Alten Testament

HSM Harvard Semitic Monographs

ITC International Theological Commentary

JBL Journal of Biblical Literature

JerBS Jerusalem Biblical Studies

JNWSL Journal for North-West Semitic Languages

JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

JSOTS JSOT Supplements

KHC Kurzer Hand-Commentar

LXX Septuagint

MT Masoretic Text

NCBC New Century Bible Commentary

NICOT New International Commentary on the Old Testament

OBO Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis

OTL Old Testament Library

RiB Rivista Biblica Italiana

SBL Society of Biblical Literature

SC Sources Chrétiennes

SCM Student Christian Movement

SCS Septuagint and Cognate Studies

SDB Supplément au Dictionnaire de la Bible

SH Studia Hierosolymitica

SJOT Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament

SOTS Society of Old Testament Study

SPCK Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge

SVT Supplements to VT

ThLZ Theologische Literatur-Zeitung

ThZ Theologische Zeitschrift

TOTC Tyndale Old Testament Commentary

TRu Theologische Rundschau

TSK Theologische Studien und Kritiken

TWAT Theologische Wörterbuch zum Alten ...