The Untold Story of the Conquest of the Land: Shaping the Character of Joshua, the Cultic Reform and the Deuteronomic Law of the Ban

The book of Joshua continues the book of Deuteronomy, and is connected to it historically, conceptually and narratively and also by its Deuteronomistic ideology. Despite this connection, and despite the clear continuity between the two books, Joshua is the first of the “Former Prophets” books in the Hebrew Bible. This is the introduction for the historiographic description of the history of Israel in Canaan, in which the story of the conquest of the land and its settlement is described. This understanding of the Book of Joshua’s historiographical place, alongside the emphasis on the importance of the Law of the Torah and the presentation of loyalty to it as ...