The Book of Deuteronomy is an important part of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. It provides historical context for the Israelites' journey fromEgyptto the Promised Land, and contains important themes and motifs that are central to the Bible as a whole. It is also significant ...
1 Joshua and His Book in Second Temple Jewish Literaturedoi:10.1515/9783110290059.7A. Feldman
Joshua 10:13.It is easy to find the place where the book of Joshua apparently quotes this Book of Jasher: And when they were smiting, the day was declining toward evening, and Joshua said in the sight of all the people, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley...
5And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.3 : 6And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the ...
And that’s somewhat of a happy ending, but it’s not the end of the story. Turn a few pages forward to the 2nd chapter of the book of Judges. Judges 2:7. “And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had ...
Jericho’s Daughterreimagines the biblicalstory of Jericho, this time told from the perspective ofRahab, the Canaanite prostitute who is spared by Joshua when the Israelites raze Jericho and who, having converted and married an Israelite, becomes an important Jewish matriarch. As a work of visua...
If the novel has one fault, it is the on again, off again, romance between Blaze and Joshua, It became irritating after a while, and somewhat contrived, as it didn’t fit in with the black humor that made this book so much fun for me. Also, the ending seemed very sudden with many...
214, 230, 240) makes him contemporary with Ezekiel, and extends the period of his prophecy from the time of Manasseh to that of Daniel and Joshua, the son of Josedech. The Chronicon Paschale places him later, first mentioning him in the beginning of the reign of Josiah (Olymp. 32), ...
KJVJudges 1:1¶ Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?2And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand...
On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White is published by Penguin Random House. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth R. Varon is published by Simon and Schuster. Both books are readily available from Amazon,...