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Document Details : Title: The Division of the Land in Joshua 13-19 and the Epistemic Status of its Diachronic Reconstruction Author(s): VAN BEKKUM, Koert Journal: Bibliotheca Orientalis Volume: 80 Issue: 1-2 Date: 2023 Pages: 69-75 DOI: 10.2143/BIOR.80.1.3292540 Abstract : This article reviews two monographs on the literary presentation of the distribution of the Promised Land, as described in Joshua 13-19 from the angle of the epistemic status of arguments for literary and redaction criticism. Both studies turn out to be excellent examples in making detailed observations and building them into a consistent view of the texts under discussion. At the same time, both monographs make it clear that controversial assumptions play a greater role in the reconstruction of the origin and development of the text, when less external data are available and less reflection is made on the probability of the reconstruction. |
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