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 A.Graeme Auld, Joshua, Judges, and
Ruth. Daily Study Bible. Westminster, 1985. Pbk. ISBN: 0664245765.
pp.282. {CBD}
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 Trent C. Butler, Joshua. Word Biblical
Commentary, Vol. 7. Word, 1983. Hbk. ISBN: 0849902061. pp.304. {CBD}
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C.J.
Goslinga, Joshua, Judges, Ruth. Bible Students Commentary. Grand Rapids:
Zondervan, 1986. Hbk. ISBN: 0310452805. {Amazon.com} |
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 E.J. Hamlin, Joshua: Inheriting the Land.
International Theological Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983. Pbk. SBN:
0802810411. pp.207. {CBD}
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 J. Gordon Harris, Cheryl Anne Brown &
Michael S. Moore, Joshua, Judges, Ruth. New International Biblical
Commentary. Old Testament Series, 5. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers,
2000. Pbk. ISBN: 1565632141. pp.300. {CBD}
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 Richard Hess, Joshua. Tyndale Old Testament
Commentaries. Leicester: IVP, 1996. Pbk. ISBN: 0851118496. pp.320. {CBD}
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 David M. Howard, Joshua. New American Commentary.
Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1998. Hbk. ISBN: 0805401059. pp.464.
{CBD}
{Amazon.com} |
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 J.A. Huffman, Jr. Joshua. Communicator's
Commentary. Word, 1986. Hbk. ISBN: 0849904110. pp.282. {CBD}
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 M.H. Woudstra, The Book of Joshua. The New
International Commentary on the Old Testament, 1981. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1991. Hbk. ISBN: 0802825257. pp.396. {CBD}
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Scholarly Theories Concerning Israel's Entry in
Canaan
1) Theories that assume that Israel arose from
within Canaan 1a) Peasants Revolt
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Roland
Boer, Tracking a Classic: The Tribes of Yahweh. Journal for the Study of
the Old Testament Supplement Series, No. 351. Sheffield: Continuum
International Publishing Group - Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. Hbk. ISBN:
082646050X. pp.200. {CBD}
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George E. Mendenhall, "The Hebrew
Conquest of Palestine," Biblical Archaeology, Vol. 25, No.3 (1962):
66-87. |
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 George E. Mendenhall, The
Tenth Generation. John Hopkins University Press, 1973. Pbk. ISBN:
0801816548. pp.248. {Amazon.com} |
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N.K. Gottwald, "The Hypothesis of the
Revolutionary Origins of Ancient Israel," Journal for the Study of the Old
Testament, Vol. 7 (1978). |
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 Norman K. Gottwald, The Tribes of
Yahweh. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999. pp.916. Pbk. ISBN:
1841270261. pp.916. {CBD}
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1b) Nomadic Origins
1c) Displaced Coastal
Populations
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J.A. Callaway, "New Evidence on the
Conquest of Ai," Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. Vol. 87. (1968):
312-320. |
1d) Evolutionary origins from runaway peasants
to settled tribal agriculturalists
1e) Israel was derived from a variety of rural
groups
2) Theories that assume that Israel arose
outside of Canaan
2a) The Infiltration Theory
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Y. Aharoni, "Problems of the Israelite
Conquest in the Light of Archaeological Discoveries," Antiquity and
Survival, Vol. 2 (1957). |
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Albrecht
Alt, Essays on Old Testament History and Religion. Continuum
International Publishing Group - Sheffield Academic, 1989. Pbk. ISBN:
1850752044. pp.274. {Amazon.com} |
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John M. Miller, "Archaeology and the
Israelite Conquest of Canaan: Some Methodological Observations," Palestine
Exploration Quarterly 109 (1977): 87-93. |
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J.M.
Miller & J.M. Hayes, Israelite and Judean History. London: SCM
Press, 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 0334024358. pp.736. |
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Martin
Noth, The History of Israel. London: XPress Reprints, 1996. Pbk. ISBN:
1859310486. pp.496. {Amazon.com} |
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M. Weippert, The Settlement of the
Israelite Tribes in Palestine. Allenson, 1971. |
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M.
Weippert, "The Israelite 'Conquest' and the Evidence from Transjordan," F.M.
Cross, ed. Symposia Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the
American Schools of Oriental Research (1900-1975). Cambridge, Mass.: ASOR,
1979. Pbk. ISBN: 0897575032: 15-34. {Amazon.com} |
2b) 13th Century Conquest
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W.F. Albright, "The Kyle Memorial
Excavation at Bethel, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental
Research, Vol. 56. (1934). |
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W.F. Albright, The Biblical Period
from Abraham to Ezra. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1963. |
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John Bright, Early Israel in Recent
History Writing. London: SCM Press, 1956. |
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 John Bright, A History of Israel, 4th
edn. Westminster John Knox Press, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0664220681. pp.530.
{CBD}
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 R.K. Harrison, An
Introduction to the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969. Hbk. ISBN:
0802831079. pp.660. {CBD}
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 Kenneth A. Kitchen & T.C. Mitchell,
"Chronology of the Old Testament," I.H. Marshall, J.I. Packer & D.J.
Wiseman, eds. New Bible Dictionary, 3rd edn. Leicester: IVP, 1962. Hbk.
ISBN: 0851106595. {CBD}
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Kenneth A. Kitchen, Ancient Orient and Old
Testament. Chicago / London: IVP / The Tyndale Press, 1966. Hbk.
pp.191. Although it has been out of print for many years this book is
still cited as a valuable source in many reference works. |
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Kenneth A. Kitchen, The Bible in its
World. Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1977. |
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George Ernest Wright, Biblical
Archaeology. London: Duckworth, 1962. {Amazon.com} |
2c) 15th Century Conquest
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Charles F. Aling, "The
Sphinx Stele of Thutmose IV And The Date Of The Exodus," Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society 22.2 (1979): 97-101. |
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Charles F. Aling, Egypt and Bible
History From Earliest Times to 1000 BC. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1981. Pbk.
ISBN: 0801001749. {Amazon.com} |
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P. Bienkowski, "Jericho was Destroyed
in the Middle Bronze Age, No the Late Bronze Age," Biblical Archaeology
Review 16 (1990): 45-46. |
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John
J. Bimson, Redating the Exodus and Conquest. Sheffield: Almond Press,
1981. Pbk. ISBN 0907459048. pp.288. {Amazon.com}Bimson's
work points out serious weaknesses in many of the other works supporting a 15th
Century date. |
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John J.
Bimson, "Archaeological Data and the Dating of the Patriarchs," A.R. Millard
& D.J. Wiseman, eds. Essays on the Patriarchal Narratives. Leicester:
IVP, 1980. Hbk. ISBN: 0851117430. pp.224. |
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John J. Bimson, "Exodus and Conquest:
Myth or Reality?" Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum, Vol. 2
(1988). |
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John J. Bimson, "The origins of Israel in Canaan.' an examination of recent
theories," Themelios 15.1 (1989): 4-15. |
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Charles
H. Dyer, "The Date of the Exodus Reexamined," Bibliotheca Sacra, Vol.
140: 559 (1983): 225-243.  |
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Eugene H. Merrill, "Palestinian
Archaeology and the Date of the Conquest: Do Tells Tell Tales?" Grace
Theological Journal 3 (1982): 107-21. |
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Eugene H. Merrill, "Palestinian
Archaeology and the Date of the Conquest: Do Tells Tell Tales?" Grace
Theological Journal 3.1 (1982): 107-121. |
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 Eugene H. Merrill, Kingdom of Priests.
Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1987. Pbk. ISBN: 0801021030. pp.546. {CBD}
{Amazon.com} |
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Eugene H. Merrill, "The Late Bronze/Early
Iron Age Transition and the Emergence of Israel," Bibliotheca Sacra 152:
606 (1995): 145-162. |
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John Rea, "The Time of the Oppression and
the Exodus," Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 3.3 (Summer
1960): 58-66. |
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John Rea, "New Light on the Wilderness
Journey and the Conquest," Grace Journal 2:2 (1961): 5-13. |
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Bruce
K. Waltke, "Palestinian Artifactual Evidence Supporting the Early Date for the
Exodus," Bibliotheca Sacra, Vol. 129: 513 (1972): 33-47. |
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Bruce
K. Waltke, "Palestinian Artifactual Evidence Supporting the Early Date for the
Exodus," Bibliotheca Sacra, Vol. 129: 513 (1972): 33-47. |
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Bruce K. Waltke, "The Date of the Conquest,"
Westminster Theological Journal 52.2 (1990): 181-200. |
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Sojourn,
Exodus and Conquest: Fact or Fiction? (Bryant G. Wood) |
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Bryant G. Wood, "Did the Israelites
Conquer Jericho? A New Look at the Archaeological Evidence," Biblical
Archaeology Review 16 (1990): 44-58. |
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Bryant G. Wood, "Dating Jericho's
Destruction: Bienkowski is Wrong on All Counts," Biblical Archaeology
Review 6 (1990): 45-49, 69. |
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Is
the Bible Accurate Concerning the Destruction of the Walls of Jericho?
(Bryant G. Wood) |
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Has
the Biblical City and Story of Jericho Been verified? (Bryant G.
Wood) |
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Bryant G. Wood, "The Rise and Fall of
the 13th Century Exodus-Conquest Theory," Journal of the Evangelical
Theological Society 48.3 (Sept. 2005): 475-489. [Wood critiques the
evidence presented by Kenneth Kitchen for a 13th Century exodus. He concludes
that there is no support for the theory and urges evangelicals to abandon it in
favour of the 15th Century date.] |
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Albrecht
Alt, Essays on Old Testament History and Religion. Continuum
International Publishing Group - Sheffield Academic Press, 1989. Pbk. ISBN:
1850752044 . pp.274. {Amazon.com} |
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Elie Assis, " 'How Long are You Slack
to Go to Possess the Land' ( Jos. XVIII 3): Ideal and Reality in the
Distribution Descriptions in Joshua XIII-XIX," Vetus Testamentum 53.1
(2003): 1-25. [Abstract] |
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A.G. Auld, "Cities of Refuge in
Israelite Tradition," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 10
(1978): 26-40. |
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A.Graeme
Auld, Joshua, Moses, and the Land: Tetrateuch - Pentateuch - Hexateuch in a
Generation Since 1938. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1980. ISBN: 0567093069.
pp.156. {Amazon.com} |
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A.
Graeme Auld, "Reading Joshua After Kings," Jon Davies, Graham Harvey &
Wilfred G.E. Watson, eds., Words Remembered, Texts Renewed: Essays in Honour
of John F.A.Sawyer. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement
No. 195. Sheffield: Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffield
Academic Press, 1995. Hbk. ISBN: 1850755426. pp.167-181. {CBD}
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John A. Beck, "Why Do Joshua's Readers
Keep Crossing the River? The Narrative-Geographical Shaping of Joshua 3-4,"
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 48.4 (December 2005):
689-699. |
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Was Ai a
ruin at the time of the Conquest? (Stichting Bijbel) |
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No
Cities in Transjordan before 1250 B.C.? (Stichting Bijbel) |
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Robert
Boling, "Levitical History and the Role of Joshua," Carol L. Meyers & M.
O'Connor, eds, Word of the Lord Shall Go Forth: Essays in Honor of David
Noel Freedman in Celebration of His Sixtieth Birthday. Winona Lake, IN:
Eisenbrauns, 1983. Hbk. ISBN: 0931464196. pp.241-261. {CBD}
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Conquest
or Settlement? History and Theology in Joshua and Judges (Dennis
Bratcher) |
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Peter
Briggs, "Testing the Factuality of the Conquest of Ai Narrative in the Book of
Joshua" Global Joural of Classical Theology, 3.3 (2003). |
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 Walter Brueggemann, The Land: Place As
Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith. Augsburg Fortress
Publishers, 1977. Pbk. ISBN: 0800615263. pp.203. {CBD}
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J.A. Callaway, "Was My Excavation at AI
Worthwhile?" Biblical Archaeology Review 11 (1985): 68-69. |
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G. C. Chirichigno, "The Use Of The
Epithet In The Characterization Of Joshua," Trinity Journal 8.1 (1987):
69-79. |
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George W. Coats, "The Ark of the
Covenant in Joshua," Hebrew Annual Review 9 (1985): 137-57. |
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George W. Coats, "The Book of Joshua:
Heroic Saga or Conquest Theme," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
38 (1987): 15-32. |
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George W. Coats, "An Exposition for the
Conquest Theme," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 47 (1985):
47-54. |
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B. Childs, "A Study of the Formula
'Unto This Day'," Journal of Biblical Literature 82 (1963):
279-92. |
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Peter C. Craigie, "The Conquest and
Early Hebrew Poetry," Tyndale Bulletin 20 (1969): 76-94. |
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R.C. Culley, "Stories of the Conquest,"
Hebrew Annual Review 8 (1984): 25-44. |
|
 John J. Davis, Conquest and Crisis:
Studies in Joshua, Judges, and Ruth. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock
Publishers, 2001. Pbk. ISBN: 1579108288. pp.188. {Amazon.com} |
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P. Diepold, Israel's Land.
Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1972. |
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Leonard
Jay Greenspoon, Textual Studies in the Book of Joshua. Harvard Semitic
Monograph Series 28. Chico: Scholars, 1983. Hbk. ISBN: 0891306226. {Amazon.com} |
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B. Halpern, "Gibeon: Israelite
Diplomacy in the Conquest Era," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 37 (1975):
303-16. |
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Richard S. Hess, "Studies in the Book of
Joshua," Themelios 20.3 (1995): 12-15. |
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Richard S. Hess, "A Typology of West
Semitic Place Name Lists with Special Reference to Joshua 13-21," Biblical
Archaeologist 59.3 (1996): 160-170. |
|
Richard S. Hess, "Non-Israelite
Personal Names in the Book of Joshua," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 58.2
(1996): 205-214. |
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Richard S. Hess, "West Semitic Texts
and the Book of Joshua," Bulletin for Biblical Research 7 (1997):
63-76. |
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Richard
S. Hess, "The Book of Joshua as a Land Grant," Biblica 83 (2002):
493-506. |
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Paul
R. House, "The God Who Gives Rest in the Land: Joshua," The Southern Baptist
Journal of Theology 2.3 (Fall 1998): 12-33. |
|
David M. Howard, Jr., "'Three Days' in
Joshua 1-3: Resolving a Chronological Conundrum," Journal of the Evangelical
Theological Society, 41.4 (1998): 539-550. |
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Robert L. Hubbard, Jr., "'What Do These
Stones Mean?': Biblical Theology and a Motif in Joshua, "Bulletin for
Biblical Research 11.1 (2001): 1-26. |
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Adrian Jeffers, "Ideal Versus Real
History in the Book of Joshua," Journal of the Evangelical Theological
Society, 12.3 (1969): 183-187. |
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Yehezkel
Kaufman, The Biblical Account of the Conquest of Canaan, 2nd edn.
Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1985. Hbk. ISBN: 9652235563. pp.147. {Amazon.com} |
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The
Captain of the Lord’s Army (Joshua 5:13-15) (J. Hampton Keathley
III) |
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The
Agony of Defeat (Joshua 7:1-26) (J. Hampton Keathley III) |
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J.P.U. Lilley, "The Altar in Joshua and
Judges," Tyndale Bulletin 5/6 (1960): 32-33. |
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D. Livingston, "The Location of the
Biblical Bethel and Ai Reconsidered," Westminster Theological Journal 33
(1970): 20-44. |
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D. Livingston, "The Traditional Site of
Bethel Questioned," Westminster Theological Journal 34 (1971):
39-50. |
|
 Tremper Longman III & Daniel G. Reid, God Is a
Warrior: Studies in Old Testament Biblical Theology. Grand Rapids:
Zondervan / Carlisle: Paternoster, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0853646481.
pp.224.{Amazon.com} |
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Gerald
L. Mattingly, "The Exodus-Conquest and the Archaeology of Transjordan: New
Light on an Old Problem," Grace Theological Journal 4.2 (1983):
245-262. |
|
Eugene H. Merrill, "The Late
Bronze/Early Iron Age Transition and the Emergence of Israel," Bibliotheca
Sacra 152: 606 (1995): 145-162. |
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Jeffrey J. Niehaus, "Joshua and Ancient
Near Eastern Warfare," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
31.1 (1988): 37-50. |
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Pekka Pitkänen, "Ethnicity,
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|
 George W. Ramsey, The Quest
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Reprinted: Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers. 2000. Pbk. ISBN:
1579102719. pp.208. {Amazon.com} |
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Have
NASA computers really proven Joshua's 'long day'? (Jonathan
Sarfati) |
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Francis
A. Schaeffer, Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History. InterVarsity,
1975. Pbk. ISBN: 0877847738. {Amazon.com} |
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Aaron Sherwood, "A Leader's Misleading
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Study of the Old Testament 31.1 (2006): 43-61. [Abstract]
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Dean R. Ulrich, "Does The Bible
Sufficiently Describe The Conquest?" Trinity Journal 20.1 (1999):
53-68. |
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Gerhard von Rad, "The Promised Land and
Yahweh's Land in the Hexateuch," Problems of the Hexateuch and Other
Essays. McGraw-Hill, 1966. pp.79-93. |
|
 Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, The Meaning of
Hesed in the Hebrew Bible: A New Inquiry. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock
Publishers, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 1579109276. pp.272. {Amazon.com} |
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Dean R. Ulrich, "Does The Bible
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1999): 53-68. |
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M.
Weinfeld, "Divine Intervention in War in Ancient Israel and in the Ancient Near
East," H. Tadmor & M. Weinfeld, eds. History, Historiography, and
Interpretation: Studies in Biblical and Cuneiform Literature, Jerusalem:
Magnes / Prometheus, 1983. Pbk. ISBN: 9652234591. pp.121-47. {Amazon.com} |
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Gordon J. Wenham, "The Deuteronomic
Theology of the Book of Joshua," Journal of Biblical Literature 90
(1971): 140-48. |
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D.J. Wiseman, "Rehab of Jericho,"
Tyndale Bulletin 14 (1964): 8-11. |
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Joshua's
"Long Day" and Mesopotamian Celestial Omen Texts (Bryant G.
Wood) |
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George E. Wright, "The Literary and
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Studies (1946): 105-114. |
|
Y. Yadin, "Is the Biblical Account of
the Israelite Conquest on Canaan Historically Reliable?" 8 (1982):
16-23. |
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Edward J. Young, "The Alleged Secondary
Deuteronomic Passages in the Book of Joshua," Evangelical Quarterly 25
(1953): 142-57. |
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K.L.
Younger, Jr., Ancient Conquest Accounts: A Study in Ancient Near Eastern and
Biblical History Writing. Journal for the Society of Old Testament Studies
98. Sheffield: JSOT, 1990. Hbk. ISBN: 1850752524. pp.383. {Amazon.com} |
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Z. Zevit, "Problems of Ai," Biblical
Archaeology Review 11 (1985): 56-69. |
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Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman, The
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Niels Peter Lemche, Ancient Israel: A New
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1850750173. pp.276.
Niels Peter Lemche, Prelude to Israel's
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