LEADER 03707oam 22006614a 450 001 9910811478403321 005 20240523131432.0 010 $a1-57506-631-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575066318 035 $a(CKB)2550000000052173 035 $a(OCoLC)759160148 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10495984 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000540633 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11340715 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540633 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10585778 035 $a(PQKB)10805269 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155628 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10495984 035 $a(OCoLC)932350389 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_79424 035 $a(DE-B1597)584355 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575066318 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155628 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000052173 100 $a20100106d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading Joshua as Christian Scripture$fDouglas S. Earl 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWinona Lake, Ind. :$cEisenbrauns,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2010. 215 $a1 online resource (293 p.) 225 0 $aJournal of theological interpretation supplements ;$v2 300 $aSlightly Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Durham University, 2008. 311 $a1-57506-701-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aReading Joshua as Christian scripture? -- Learning to speak of God through myth : approaching Joshua as myth -- The hermeneutics of reading Joshua as Christian scripture -- Joshua as part of tradition(s) -- The genre of Joshua : codes of production and use of literary conventions -- Understanding the significance of [cherem] -- The text of Joshua -- Reading Joshua -- Drawing it all together : reading Joshua as Christian scripture today. 330 1 $a"The book of Joshua has been received and used as Christian Scripture throughout Christian history. The challenge today, however, is how Christians should appropriately continue to read Joshua as Scripture, not least in the light of well-known historical and ethical difficulties with the narrative. In Reading Joshua as Christian Scripture, Douglas Earl draws on conceptual resources offered by recent anthropological approaches to myth and combines this with a close literary reading of the text, in order to argue that Joshua is misconstrued when it is treated as a historical account of conquest. Instead, in its ancient Israelite context Joshua functioned to reshape accepted norms of community identity, as reflected in the book of Deuteronomy, by forming a new "cultural memory." Furthermore, Earl reconsiders the traditional notion of the "spiritual sense" of Scripture in terms of a rich account of symbol and also makes use of the narrative hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. The result is a fresh and unexpected reading of Joshua as Christian Scripture that develops the original function of the narrative in a way that resonates with classic premodern readings and is also challenging to contemporary Christian understandings of identity and faithfulness."--Publisher's description. 410 0$aJournal of theological interpretation supplements ;$v2. 606 $aHermeneutik$2idszbz 606 $aRezeption$2idszbz 606 $aExegese$2idszbz 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 615 7$aHermeneutik. 615 7$aRezeption. 615 7$aExegese. 676 $a222/.206 700 $aEarl$b Douglas S$01173333 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811478403321 996 $aReading Joshua as Christian Scripture$94059159 997 $aUNINA