Joshua (The Anchor Yale Bible | AYBC)
Overview
Joshua began as a collaboration between G. Ernest Wright, the distinguished biblical scholar and archaeologist, and his student, Robert G. Boling. After Wright’s death, Robert Boling, who also did the translation and commentary for Judges, finished the task alone.
Boling’s extensive treatment includes not only an entire new translation of Joshua and a complete commentary on the text, but also comprehensive notes, numerous bibliographies, four pages of illustrations, and 11 maps especially commissioned for this volume.
In addition to exhaustive research and excellent scholarship, this volume also includes Ernest Wright’s 135-page introduction, completed just before his death, which provides not only an informed foreword to the text of Joshua but also a summary of his previous writings on Israel’s formative years.
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- Offers original translations, including alternative translations, annotations, and variants
- Provides verse-by-verse commentary on the text
- Presents the reader with historical background, including analysis of authorship and dating
- Features an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary literature
- Introduction
- The God of Israel and the Conquest of Canaan
- The Book of Joshua in Modern Study
- Historical Problems of the Book of Joshua
- Joshua
- Part I: Mobilization and Invasion 1:1–5:12
- Part II: The Warfare 5:13–11:23
- Part III: The Inheritance 12:1–19:51
- Part IV: Provisions for Keeping the Peace 20:1–21:45
- Part V: How to Avoid Civil War (22:1–34)
- Part VI: Theology by Joshua (23:1–16)
- Part VII: The Shechem Covenant, and Postscripts (24:1–33)
Top Highlights
“Joshua himself has been traditionally considered the book’s author. The modern scholar who comes nearest to tradition at this point is Yehezkel Kaufmann, who believed that with minor exceptions, such as Josh 24:1–27, the book is a unity ‘composed by a recorder of events at the beginning of the period of the Judges, at the time of Dan’s migration to the north. This author wrote in an ancient Deuteronomistic style. He collected the stories from living tradition and wrote them down in his own style,’ though he ‘also possessed various written sources.” (Page 40)
“Three elements stand out: a. the encouragement given to the new officer; b. the statement of task or function; c. an assurance of divine help or presence.” (Page 117)
“the precise referent is unclear but has somehow to do with freedom from the scorn for and indignity of slavery” (Page 190)
“In Hebrew the words for ‘bridegroom,’ ‘son-in-law,’ and ‘father-in-law’ are all based on the same verbal root ḥtn, which in Arabic means ‘to circumcise.” (Page 194)
“Joshua is first to make the move that no responsible adult, male, head of household can make for another” (Page 538)
- Title: Joshua
- Authors: Robert G. Boling and G. Ernest Wright
- Series: Anchor Yale Bible (AYB)
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication Date: 1995
- Pages: 612
Robert G. Boling is a minister of the United Presbyterian Church and a professor at McCormick Theological Seminary. He belongs to the American Schools of Oriental Research, the American Academy of Religion, and the Society of Biblical Literature, and is editor of the journal Biblical Research.
About G. Ernest Wright
G. Ernest Wright is the author of numerous works on archaeology, including Biblical Archaeology and The Westminster Historical Atlas. He was also the founding editor of Biblical Archeologist. Wright died in 1974.
