Joshua 24

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This paper reviews and discusses Joshua, Chapter 24. According to the paper, Joshua 24 is first of all seen by its commentators as one of the covenant rituals between the God of Israel and its people, which may be included in the series of the covenants made initially by Abraham and then by Moses. The paper reports that the reconstruction of the event in Joshua 24 varies from a perspective that sees it as a historical event signaling important transformations for Israel and a perspective in which it is only a textual expansion of the Deuteronomic texts.

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"The origins of the Joshua 24 chapter are therefore much disputed, both as to what regarded the historical context and to the possible interpretations. The conclusions are that the actual tribes involved could have been either the entire amphictyony of Israel, as Delbert Hillers suggests, or the tribes belonging to North Israel in the province of Samaria or a Judaeic province, as Perlitt supposed or, finally as Van Seters puts forth - merely a textual addition to the Deuteronomy work, and addressed rather to the "individual households" of Israel than to the nation as such or to certain tribes. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Boling, Robert G., and G. Ernest Wright. Joshua. AB 6. Garden City, New York .:Doubleday, 1982.
• Harris, J. Gordon, Cheryl A. Brown and Michael S. Moore. Joshua, Judges, Ruth. NIBC. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2000.
• Nelson, Richard J. Joshua: A Commentary .Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997.
• Nicholson, Ernest God and His People: Covenant and Theology in the Old Testament. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1986.
• Soggin, Alberto Joshua. A Commentary. Philadelphia. Westminster Press, 1987

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