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The book of __Joshua__ has been received and used as Christian Scripture throughout Christian history. The challenge today, however, is how Christians should appropriately continue to read __Joshua__ as Scripture, not least in the light of well-known historical and ethical difficulties with the narrative. In __Reading Joshua as Christian Scripture__, Douglas Earl draws on conceptual resources offered by recent anthropological approaches to myth and combines this with a close literary reading of the text, in order to argue that Joshua is misconstrued when it is treated as a historical account of conquest. Instead, in its ancient Israelite context __Joshua__ functioned to reshape accepted norms of community identity, as reflected in the book of Deuteronomy, by forming a new “cultural memory.” Furthermore, Earl reconsiders the traditional notion of the “spiritual sense” of Scripture in terms of a rich account of symbol and also makes use of the narrative hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. The result is a fresh and unexpected reading of __Joshua__ as Christian Scripture that develops the original function of the narrative in a way that resonates with classic premodern readings and is also c

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Author

Douglas S. Earl

Publisher

Penn State University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781575067018

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, History, Christian