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Paul Hinlicky, a leading systematic theologian widely respected for his contributions in contemporary dogmatics, offers a theological reading of Joshua in this addition to the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible series. Hinlicky compares and contrasts the politics of purity and the politics of redemption in an innovative and illuminating way and locates the book of Joshua in the postexilic genesis of apocalyptic theology. As with other series volumes, this commentary is designed to serve the church, providing a rich resource for preachers, teachers, students, and study groups.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	20 juillet 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781493431137
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Half Title Page
Series Page

Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible
Series Editors
R. R. Reno, General Editor
First Things
New York, New York
Robert W. Jenson (1930–2017)
Center of Theological Inquiry
Princeton, New Jersey
Robert Louis Wilken
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Ephraim Radner
Wycliffe College
Toronto, Ontario
Michael Root
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
George Sumner
Episcopal Diocese of Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Title Page
Copyright Page
© 2021 by Paul R. Hinlicky
Published by Brazos Press
a division of Baker Publishing Group
PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.brazospress.com
Ebook edition created 2021
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Control Number: 2020053958
ISBN 978-1-4934-3113-7
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations labeled AT are the author’s own translation.
Quotations from L. Daniel Hawk, Joshua , Berit Olam (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2000), appear courtesy of the publisher. Copyright 2000 by Order of Saint Benedict. Published by Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota. Used with permission.
Dedication
To all my former students, both in Slovakia and at Roanoke College, who answered the call to minister the word and sacraments of Christ
Contents
Cover i
Half Title Page ib
Series Page ii
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Dedication v
Acknowledgments ix
Series Preface xi
Abbreviations xix
Introduction 1
Preliminary Considerations 5
Part 1: YHWH Usurps the Usurpers of the Earth (Joshua 1–12) 51
YHWH Commissions Joshua to Succeed Moses (1:1–9) 53
Preparations for the Battle of the Kingdom of YHWH (1:10–18) 60
Rahab, Confessing YHWH, Tricks Her King, Saving Joshua’s Spies and Her Own Family (2:1–24) 64
Israel Passes Over the Jordan and Memorializes the Event (3:1–4:24) 76
Joshua Prepares the New Generation and Is Prepared by the Prince of the Army of YHWH (5:1–15) 91
The War Procession of the Throne of YHWH (6:1–27) 102
Achan Covets (7:1–26) 120
Ḥ erem Consumes Ai and Its King (8:1–29) 134
Covenant Renewal in the Promised Land (8:30–35) 144
The Paradox of the Gibeonites (9:1–27) 149
The Messianic Paradox (10:1–15) 158
The Campaign against the Southern Kings (10:16–43) 166
The Alliance of the Northern Kings against Israel and Their Defeat (11:1–15) 172
The Hardening of the Hearts of the Canaanite Kings (11:16–20) 179
Defeat of the Anakim and the End of Battle (11:21–23) 182
The End of Canaanite Sovereignty (12:1–24) 183
Part 2: To Inherit the Earth (Joshua 13–21) 189
Unconquered Canaan (13:1–7) 191
The Transjordan (13:8–33) 196
The Cisjordan (14:1–5) 199
The Kenite’s Inheritance (14:6–15) 202
The Territory of Judah and Its Satellites (15:1–17:18) 204
Casting Lots at Shiloh for the Seven Remaining Tribes (18:1–19:51) 215
Sanctuary (20:1–9) 223
Cities Assigned to the Levites (21:1–42) 229
Conclusion to Israel’s Initial Land Reform (21:43–45) 232
Part 3: An Inconclusive Conclusion (Joshua 22–24) 235
The True Unity of the Israel of God (22:1–34) 237
The Aged Joshua Bids Israel Farewell, Not Once but Twice (23:1–24:33) 250
Epilogue 273
Scripture Index 286
Author Index 290
Subject Index 293
Cover Flaps 299
Back Cover 300
Acknowledgments
This book has been more than five years in the making. I was excited when I received the assignment because I had long wanted to test my life’s work in systematic theology (which I prefer to call “critical dogmatics”) with a sustained exercise in biblical exegesis and theological commentary. Moreover, I have had an abiding theological interest in reaping a harvest from the postwar Jewish-Christian dialogue and the reassessment in Christian theology of traditional anti-Judaism. This interest began under the sponsorship of the late Richard John Neuhaus, who invited me to consultations he organized with Jewish theologians including David Novak, Peter Ochs, Leon Klenicki, and, on one memorable occasion, Michael Wyschogrod. Thus, I undertook the book of Joshua as a fitting challenge—this particularly problematic book of the Bible. In historical fact, the problem of Joshua was already felt in the Greek translation of the Hebrew known as the Septuagint, and the problem became acute in face of the objections to its violence in gnostic circles, both Jewish and Christian. But the problem of the book of Joshua has become inescapable for us today after the twentieth century’s barbaric descent into “total” war—a paradigm of utter destruction, divinely sanctioned no less, on display in the book of Joshua.
Full of enthusiasm, I plunged in. After a year or more of intensive research in the literature on Joshua, however, I was unexpectedly felled by a stroke. A steady but slow recovery further delayed the work until this past year when I was finally able to concentrate fully on the composition of the commentary. In hindsight, I am glad about the delay because the long simmering of the multiple ingredients composing Joshua has made for a more savory stew—at least to the taste of the chef. Taste for yourselves and see!
I am grateful to Ellen, my wife of forty-six years, who has cheerfully and faithfully supported me in this challenging time, and also to our son, Will, who has likewise taken up many tasks on our St. Gall Farm in the mountains of Virginia—farmer tasks, which my stroke-injured left hand can no longer perform. To any others suffering with such a disability, I would like to mention here that this entire book has been composed through voice recognition technology. When I lost the ability to type, I feared for the future of my work as an author. But this technology has wonderfully provided the means to continue, and I heartily recommend it to others who need this kind of help.
I am also indebted to a number of theological friends and colleagues who have read all or part of this work in its various stages and provided feedback. Initially, biblical scholars Dr. Wesley Hill and Dr. Kathryn Schifferdecker commented on the chapter below called “Preliminary Considerations,” which works out the interpretive framework for the commentary that follows. When the full commentary was drafted, I greatly benefited from the scholarly feedback provided by literary critic Dr. Fritz Oehlschlaeger and from the Rev. Dr. Dave Delaney, Hebraist, colleague, pastor, and adjunct faculty at Roanoke College. For this project I also sought out readers who are working pastors. I am thus most happily indebted for reactions and reflections to the Rev. Gregory Fryer, who scrupulously proofread; the Rev. David C. Drebes, my pastor, who read the text as a journalist demanding clarity; and the Rev. Canon Natalie L. G. Hall, who deeply engaged the draft. Hall brought to bear her own multiple identities as child of a Jewish mother and a Lutheran father, and an ordained Lutheran serving an Episcopal diocese, offering numerous comments and suggestions and in the process saving the author from many a cultural faux pas. Both Drebes and Hall are Roanoke College alums, thus former students who have matured to become contemporary colleagues in ordained ministry. Finally, thanks are owed to my partner in podcast adventures (see our tongue-in-cheek-titled Queen of the Sciences ), the Rev. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson. Sarah, who is a pastor of Tokyo Lutheran Church in Japan (and this author’s daughter), also provided rich reflection on the draft of the commentary, for which among many other things I am deeply grateful. The book everywhere reflects the criticism and appreciation provided by these readers, and the faults that remain are solely the author’s. Soli Deo gloria!
Paul R. Hinlicky Easter 2020
Series Preface
Near the beginning of his treatise against gnostic interpretations of the Bible, Against Heresies , Irenaeus observes that scripture is like a great mosaic depicting a handsome king. It is as if we were owners of a villa in Gaul who had ordered a mosaic from Rome. It arrives, and the beautifully colored tiles need to be taken out of their packaging and put into proper order according to the plan of the artist. The difficulty, of course, is that scripture provides us with the individual pieces, but the order and sequence of various elements are not obvious. The Bible does not come with instructions that would allow interpreters to simply place verses, episodes, images, and parables in order as a worker might follow a schematic drawing in assembling the pieces to depict the handsome king. The mosaic must be puzzled out. This is precisely the work of scriptural interpretation.
Origen has his own image to express the difficulty of working out the proper approach to reading the Bible. When preparing to offer a commentary on the Psalms he tells of a tradition handed down to him by his Hebrew teacher:
The Hebrew said that the whole divinely inspired scripture may be likened, because of its obscurity, to many locked rooms in our house. By each room is placed a key, but not the one that corresponds to it, so that the keys are scattered about beside the rooms, none of them matching the room by which it is placed. It is a difficult task to find the keys and match them to the rooms that they can open. We therefore know the scriptures that are obscure only by taking the points of departure for understanding them from another place because they have their interpretive principle scattered among them. 1
As is the case for Irenaeus, scriptural interpreta