By Stephen L. Cook


This paintings assembles contributions from North America's best Hebrew Bible/Old testomony students in honor of a hugely revered biblical pupil, whose paintings on biblical prophets has been specially influential. in the record are former academics, present colleagues, and previous scholars who're now colleagues of their personal correct, representing quite a lot of denominational traditions represented—Roman Catholics, Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian, etc.


 The booklet is split into significant sections with a quick creation via the editors, John Ahn and the Stephen prepare dinner. the following, a quick biography and the tutorial occupation of Robert Wilson's contribution to the guild (with a bibliography on the finish of this part) and extra over, at a private point, his ceaseless paintings in assisting to rework and reform the "new" Yale Divinity university and his impression in molding the Ph.D. application in HB/OT within the non secular reviews division of the Graduate college at Yale college. half I carry the essays at the Former Prophets and half II at the Latter Prophets.

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Joshua is also later called a “judge in Israel” (1 Macc 2:55) and depicted as an intercessor (2 Esd 7:107). Cf. Josephus, Ant. 46. The so-called “Psalms of Joshua” (4Q378–79) found at Qumran may point to a similar interpretive direction. This text apparently re-told the biblical narrative of Joshua but expanded its prayers, speeches, songs, and curses in quasi-prophetic fashion. Moreover, in 4Q522 Joshua prophesies Solomon’s later construction of the Jerusalem Temple. 34. Nelson, Joshua, 21, notes some of these features, too.

Even Nelson, Joshua, 34, ¿nds the focus of Josh 1:7–9 “somewhat oddly redirected” from v. 6. Josh 8:30–35 and 24 also have a somewhat insecure literary status in his treatment, although he continues to argue his case for a single deuteronomistic Joshua. 1 24 Thus Says the Lord primarily, royal in nature, and that in the ¿rst edition of the Deuteronomistic History, he simply served as a cloaked version of Josiah. It might be argued that Joshua has only been turned into a prophetic ¿gure late in the history of book’s formation, and that this shift involved a sharp departure from what the book had been initially intended to convey.

Josh 1:1). I mention these parallelisms as literary observations, not historical assertions. For other examples, including a helpful study of the signi¿cance of the title “servant of the Lord” in its application to Moses and Joshua, see Frank Anthony Spina, “Moses and Joshua: Servants of the Lord as Purveyors of the Word,” in Go Figure! Figuration in Biblical Interpretation (ed. Stanley D. : Pickwick, 2008), 65–92. 7. Drawing on the distinction between “round” and “Àat” characters offered by E.

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