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This book presents a fresh introduction to the “historical books” of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Beginning with a breakdown of the literary genre these writings represent and their relationship to history, Steven McKenzie discusses the larger units of the Bible that they constitute—the “Deuteronomistic History” and the “Chronicler’s History”—and then surveys the critical methods that...

relative to Joshua in the Hebrew Bible and especially his namesake book that sharpen this question. Joshua appears in two basic roles in the Bible: as Moses’ helper and successor, who led the conquest of Canaan, and as one of the spies who, along with Caleb, brought back a favorable report (Numbers 13–14). However, some suspect that his presence as a faithful spy may be secondary in the tradition, since Caleb appears alone in some contexts (Num 13:30–31; Deut 1:36–38) and since Joshua is identified
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