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Joshua began as a collaboration between G. Ernest Wright, the distinguished biblical scholar and archaeologist, and his student, Robert G. Boling. After Wright’s death, Professor Boling, who also did the translation and commentary for Judges, finished the task alone. Boling’s extensive treatment includes not only an entire new translation of Joshua and a complete commentary on the text, but also...

late as the career of Joshua stands in the strongest possible tension with the tradition that became normative in the Jerusalem monarchy. 15. bad thing. Hebrew raʿ, generally “evil.” This verse is rhetorical repetition of the preceding, with inverted order of elements. choose. The issue is not monotheism in the abstract but allegiance in concrete particularity. Compare Exod 20:3. from the region beyond. This sense is proved by variants in the initial preposition: b and m. A number of gods had moved
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