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Transcript of Joshua 7-12
Joshua 7:1-12:24
Appetite for Destruction
“He has written a great sermon to rally Israel to the new possibility of
salvation, through obedience to the ancient covenant of YHWH,
and hope in the new David, King Josiah.”
- Frank M. Cross
A Brief History of (Supposed) Biblical Time
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Book of JoshuaBook of Joshua
- History or What?- History or What?- Importance of Dtr- Importance of Dtr
- Importance of - Importance of NarratorNarrator
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Josiah and the DtrJosiah and the Dtr
- Reflection on of Dtr- Reflection on of Dtr- Re-Conquering of - Re-Conquering of
IsraelIsrael-Connections to -Connections to
JoshuaJoshua
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Postcolonial Critical Objections to Historical Model
Joshua and the Dtr
Major Themes
•Narrator’s Omnipotence and Disclosure
•Parallels and Narrative Structures
•Etiologies
•National and Class Distinctions
•Josiah’s Shadow
Setting the Scene
Ai, Achan, and Parallels
Narrative Components
•Narrator’s Omnipotence
•Corporate Guilt
•Process of Judgement and YHWH’s Power
•Reflection of Josiah’s Reforms
Ch. 7: Elimination of Achan
8:1-29, Ai Destroyed
8:30-8:35, Mt. Ebal Interlude
9:1-27, The Gibeonites
Main Themes
•Narrative History
•Etiology
•Fractured Canaanite Society
•Tribes vs Kings
•Deuteronomistic Idealizations
Chapter 10: The South
Parallels in Structure
•War Oracle from YHWH (10:8, 11:6)
•Joshua Attacks by Surprise (10:9, 11:7)
•YHWH On Israel’s Side (10:10-14, 11:8)
•Joshua Kills Kings, Destroys Towns (10:16-39, 11:10-15)
•Summary of Destruction (10:40-43, 11:16-20)
Parallels in Themes
•Struggle Against Highlanders
•Struggle Against Lowlanders
11:1-15, The North
11:16-12:24, Final Tally
Take Aways
•Holy War and Modern Sensibilities
•Central Authority
•Class Wars
•History and Narrative
One More Thing...
History Written by the Victors
But what is history?
And what is the Deuteronomistic History?
DH as Palimpsest?
“Albrecht Alt and Martin Noth drew the conclusion that these accounts were
originally local traditions from the end of the second millennium BCE; their purpose was to explain the settlement of the tribe of Benjamin. Later, a Judean editor would
have collected and revised these etiologies, applying to them a pan-
Israelite perspective.”
- Thomas Romer
Romer asks...
“Should we speak of
a Deuteronomistic ‘movement,’
a Deuteronomistic ‘party,’ or
a Deuteronomistic ‘school,’
or are there other terms to be preferred?”
“The people of Josiah’s kingdom were unfamiliar with the modern understanding of
the nation, and Josiah’s kingdom never developed into one... Is it possible to
understand space without applying the discourse of nationalism that equates
identity and authority of the land with the centralized power? Is it possible to imagine Josiah in an alternative space from the one
constructed by the West?”
-Uriah Kim
“It is not the historian who stages events, weaving them together to form a plot, but
History itself. History is the playwright, coordinating facts into a coherent sequence:
the historian narrating what happened is merely a copyist or amanuensis. He is a spectator like anyone else and, whatever he may think of the performance, he does not question the stage
conventions.”
- Paul Carter, The Road to Botany Bay
Further Reading•Decolonizing Josiah: Toward a
Postcolonial Reading of the Deuteronomistic History by Uriah Kim, Sheffield Phoenix, 2005
•The So-Called Deuteronomistic History by Thomas Romer, T&T Clark Intl, 2005