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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...

5:9; 8:1; 10:8; 11:6).15 This means that in all instances Israel’s true Leader is the Lord.16 2 The Lord’s words to Joshua begin by making reference to Moses’ death. This death becomes the occasion (Now therefore17) for the Lord’s command to cross the Jordan and enter Canaan. These are two of the leitmotifs of the book of Joshua (see introduction to this chapter). Prepare to cross this Jordan. This was a formidable command, and everybody acquainted with the local geography, as also later readers
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