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Reading Joshua: A Historical-Critical/Archaeological Commentary

Reading Joshua: A Historical-Critical/Archaeological Commentary

Laughlin, John C. H.

Paperback

Series: Reading the Old Testament

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 1573128368
ISBN13: 9781573128360
Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated
Published: Oct 8 2015
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Reading Joshua was written for anyone who wishes to engage critically one of the most, if not the most, problematic and troublesome books in the Bible. Part of the Reading the Old Testament series.

Using the best of current historical-critical studies by mainstream biblical scholars, and the most recent archeological discoveries and theorizing, Laughlin questions both the historicity of the stories presented in the book as well as the basic theological ideology presented through these stories: namely that Yahweh ordered the indiscriminate butchery of the Canaanites. This ideology is criticized for what it is: a xenophobic and genocidal approach to the issue of how human beings should act toward one another in a multi-cultural world. Read against the backdrop of the Babylonian Exile (sixth century BCE), these stories may have served well the purpose(s) of their author(s). Thus these troubling accounts may have had their time and place, but that time and place is not the twenty-first-century world in which we now find ourselves.

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