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Works on Old Testament historiography, the “Conquest,” and the origins of Israel have burgeoned in recent days. But while others have been issuing new reconstructions, this novel work presents a close reading of the biblical text. The focus is on the literary techniques that ancient writers employed in narrating stories of conquest, and the aim is to pinpoint their communicative intentions in...

CONCLUSION As we have presented the results of our investigation into the techniques of writing conquest accounts in the ancient Near East and Joshua, we have clearly recognized that they are not final and that much more work remains to be done. We have only ‘scratched the surface’. This study has shown that one encounters very similar things in both ancient Near Eastern and biblical history writing. While there are differences (e.g., the characteristics of the deities in the individual cultures),
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