conquest and integrity (2019/05/26)
There's an extended Joshua segment today, as we face up to the different versions of the conquest of Canaan presented throughout Joshua and Judges. To help us start framing the right questions to ask of the Bible - like, "Why there are multiple accounts in the first place?" - we go looking for help from archaeology.
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Looking at biblical contradictions, and using evidence from other sources to arbitrate between the different biblical accounts, isn't the easiest conversation to have. But it's challenging mostly because of all the preconceptions that we bring to our Bible reading. There's a better way to approach these texts than trying to make the Bible dance to our own agenda - we just have to let the Bible lead, for a change!
Also this week: Isaiah teaches us to be compassionate to an enemy after the tables are turned, and in 2 Timothy we reject the false dichotomy of present and future gospel hope. I actually chopped the Isaiah segment so that I could fit in more Joshua, so there'll be a really interesting outtake up on the website later this week. It's all about the last verses of chapter 16, where it turns out the whole oracle (in Isaiah 15-16) has been a blast from the past.
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References
Mazar, Amihai (1992). Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Vol. 1: 10,000 - 586 B.C.E., The Anchor Bible Reference Library (2009 reprint). New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
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episode #20: peace and war, a look at the conquest counter-narrative in Joshua 13-19
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