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For more than two hundred years controversy has raged over the reliability of the Old Testament. Questions about the factuality of its colorful stories of heroes, villains, and kings, for example, have led many critics to see the entire Hebrew Bible as little more than pious fiction. In this fascinating book, noted ancient historian K. A. Kitchen takes strong issue with today’s “revisionist”...

See Josh. 8:30–35, and 24. Josh. 8 merely mentions the event and accompanying rites, with no detail of the content of the renewed covenant. Josh. 24, however, gives some account of the content in barest outline: title (v. 2b), prologue (vv. 2c–13), basic requirement (vv. 14–21) (for a deposition, cf. 8:32), witnesses (vv. 22, 27), and traces of blessing (v. 20 end) and curse (v. 20). These renewals of the Sinai covenant relate to the same social
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