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This popular textbook regards the Pentateuch as a literary whole, with a single theme that binds it together. The overarching theme is the partial fulfillment of the promises to the patriarchs. Though the method of the book is holistic, the origin and growth of the theme is also explored using the methods of traditional source analysis. An important chapter explores the theological function of...

Its significance, of course, lies, not in itself, but in what it foretokens and allows: the possession of Canaan. There follow instructions for the time ‘when you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan’ (33:51), concerning the treatment of the Canaanites and the method of distribution of the land (33:50–56); then (34:1–15), a demarcation of the boundaries of the land, ‘the land of Canaan in its full extent’ (34:2 RSV), the names of the men ‘who shall divide the land to you for inheritance’ (34:16–29),
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