Looking at the very dense prose found in both Joshua’s account of the division of the land and Amos’s circular prophecy can be a bit intimidating for most readers. For our purposes, it may be more useful to look at a narrative in the history of the kings of Israel. Before we begin, however, let me point to spatiality theory, which I discuss in more detail in chapter 4. To summarize, space can be divided into “first space” (physical reality), “second space” (imagined space), and
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