xai oi iepelg oi ovQayovvtsg rmswa sipm Vn oNani
6 13 xai oiisQEig eadlmaav rmswa sipm 6 20 xai eadXmaav tat adXmyliv oi ispsig rmswa ispm One wonders, however, how these additions to the mt version relate to the large minuses attested in the same secondary lxx version. The large scale pluses in mt verses 3b-4 and 6b rather support than contradict this nomistic intention since they also deal with cultic matters. 6 E. Tov, The Growth of the Book of Joshua in the Light of the Evidence of the Septuagint, in The Greek and Hebrew Bible. Collected...
Cornelis Den Hertog
In spite of more than a century of thorough investigation into the Greek translation of Joshua, there are still many riddles to be solved. One of these is the relationship between the Greek and Hebrew texts of Josh The story of the conquest of the promised land was concluded in Joshua 12 by summing up the cities whose kings had been defeated by Joshua and the Israelites. In Josh 13 1 the Lord addresses Joshua in the same fundamental way as he did in Joshua 1. After the successful conquest the...
Theo Aw Van Der Louw
The Greek Joshua has attracted some of the best minds during the past century.1 Since scholars seek challenges, their studies often deal either with the book as a whole, its most difficult passages, or its most bewildering features. But how can we avoid the circular reasoning that easily clings to such ambitious approaches For this article, I therefore took the opposite route, hoping that the discussion of some omissions in a relatively easy chapter Joshua 2 would yield clues for the more...
Part One
land in joshua and other parts of the old testament Translator's Competence and Intention in Lxx-Joshua 2 3 Sound the Trumpet Redaction and Reception of Joshua 6 2-25 19 Michael N. van der Meer Is This Not Written in the Book of Jashar Joshua 10 13c References to Extra-Biblical Books in the Bible 45 The Geographical Shape of the Unconquered Land in Joshua And the Land Was Subdued before Them Some Remarks on the Meaning of wan in Joshua 18 1 and Related Texts 73 Conquest of the Land, Loss of the...
List Of Contributors
Rainer Albertz, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and Senior Professor in the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures, Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of M nster, Germany Kristin De Troyer, Professor of Old Testament Hebrew Bible, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Great Britain Walter Dietrich, Professor of Old Testament, Faculty of Theology, University of Bern, Switzerland Christian Frevel, Professor of Old Testament,...