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What does Joshua hold to be the essential marks of Israelite identity? What distinguishes “Israel” from all other peoples? In tracking these themes, L. Daniel Hawk reveals a profound struggle to define the people of the God of Israel. Hawk shows that the themes surrounding Joshua express fundamental markers of national identity: religious practice (obedience to the commandments of Moses), ethnic...

the Passover (Exod 12:3–5). The more familiar term yabbāšâ, which signifies the dry ground traveled by Israel through the Red Sea (Exod 14:22) now replaces ḥārābâ to denote the dry ground within the Jordan (v. 22). And the purpose ascribed to the retelling, that the nations may recognize YHWH’s power, echoes a refrain within the story of the Exodus, that the Egyptians may recognize YHWH (Exod 7:5; 14:4, 18). While the first explanation for the stones elaborates their significance to Israel,
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