JOSHUA 24 AND THE WELCOME OF FOREIGNERS

Although the book of Joshua is often read as being hostile to non-Israelites, this paper argues that its concern is not with ethnicity but rather with the nature of someone’s relationship to Yahweh. Understood against the wider narrative arc of the book, Joshua 24 thus becomes the point where this...

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Published in:Acta Theologica
Main Author: D G Firth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2018-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/3678