Joshua, Josiah and Destruction

1. Joshua 7:1-12:24 Appetite for Destruction

2. “ 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 - Frank M. Cross - Frank M. Cross

3. A Brief History of (Supposed) Biblical Time

4. Book of Joshua - History or What? - Importance of Dtr - Importance of Narrator

5. Josiah and the Dtr - Reflection on of Dtr - Re-Conquering of Israel -Connections to Joshua

7. Postcolonial Critical Objections to Historical Model

8. Joshua and the Dtr

10. Setting the Scene

11. Ai, Achan, and Parallels

13. Ch. 7: Elimination of Achan

14. 8:1-29, Ai Destroyed

15. 8:30-8:35, Mt. Ebal Interlude

16. 9:1-27, The Gibeonites

18. Chapter 10: The South

21. 11:1-15, The North

22. 11:16-12:24, Final Tally

24. One More Thing...

25. History Written by the Victors

26. But what is history? And what is the Deuteronomistic History?

27. DH as Palimpsest?

28. “ 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

29. Romer asks... “ Should we speak of a Deuteronomistic ‘movement,’ a Deuteronomistic ‘party,’ or a Deuteronomistic ‘school,’ or are there other terms to be preferred?”

30. “ 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

31. “ 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