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Ancient Conquest Accounts: A Study in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical History Writing is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

that the interpreter of such texts must work hard at the process of interpretation. The simulated nature of the accounts must be fully considered. In this we would stress the tentativeness of our own interpretations of the various texts studied herein. We do not wish to give the reader the impression that we believe that none of the data in the ancient texts is trustworthy or that all is rhetoric and stereotyped vocabulary. It is simply that the use of a common transmission code underlying the ancient
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