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Recognizing that Old Testament studies today are in a state of flux as never before and that the Book of Joshua seems to be at the crossroads of this animated discussion. Marten Woudstra here takes into careful account the various views represented by recent scholarship as well as Hebrew usage and text-critical concerns. Woudstra demonstrates that the central theme in Joshua, to which everything...

the sun”) is the Mediterranean Sea. The entire enumeration contains a certain programmatic element. This is God’s description of the land which he has chosen for his people, and which they will obtain through conquest. 5 If Joshua, or the later readers of his book, should feel faint and disheartened vis-à- vis the coming events, the Lord’s words are there to encourage and reassure. This verse reflects assurances given in Deut. 7:24. The Lord’s words imply future opposition, but this opposition will
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