the theology and ethics of Joshua. They portray the fact that God gave Israel the land, in extraordinary fashion (Israel didn’t take it for itself), and the danger of trespassing on what belongs to God or of profiteering out of war. To say that Jericho is a parable is not to question whether God gave Israel the land or to imply that Israel never conquered cities in a miraculous way or never slaughtered people. The destruction of Hazor (Josh 11) is archaeologically verified and can be attributed to
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