1.25 Joshua Conquers Canaan

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The book of Joshua recounts the conquest of Canaan, the land promised to Abraham. For a few short years, the Israelites achieve a perfect relationship with their god.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:24.8	All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles.
0:45.8	Thank you. Episode 1.25, Joshua Conquers Canaan.
0:57.0	In the last two episodes of the History in the Bible podcast, we saw what modern scholarship makes of the Patriarchs and Moses. Those stories recounted in the Torah, the Pentatechuk. Now we get back to the tale. We are at Joshua, the first
1:05.6	book in the Bible after the Pentateuch. In Jewish Bibles, it is the first book of the prophets.
1:13.4	Prophets starts with Joshua, then proceeds through judges, Samuel and kings.
1:19.4	It also includes the three prophets of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel,
1:24.5	and the 12 minor prophets, who are grouped into one book called unimaginatively
1:30.3	the 12. That gives a total of eight books in the prophets. Some time in the Middle Ages, some
1:39.0	rabbi decided to split prophets into two books. The former prophets, Joshua to kings, and the latter prophets,
1:47.0	Isaiah to Malachi. Now, that decision was probably influenced by the way that Christians
1:53.1	had divided the Bible. In Christian Bibles, the second division after the Pentateuch is the
1:59.8	historical writings.
2:02.1	That includes the Jewish former prophets, together with Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah.
2:09.0	Now that makes perfect sense, one neat library of historical books.
2:14.8	But to spoil the neat simplicity of this division, Christians added the book of Ruth
2:19.9	to the historical writings, following the practice of the Septuagint. Ruth is a short story
2:27.2	apparently set in the time of the judges, and adds nothing to the historical data. I'm with the Jews on this one.
2:35.9	Ruth should have been left back in the romance shelf of the Bible.
2:40.7	The book of Joshua is named after its hero, Yehoshua.
2:45.1	God is salvation, son of none.
2:48.3	For some unclear reason, Moses had changed his name from Hoshiah.
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