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The promise of the land : the inheritance of the land of Canaan by the Israelites / Moshe Weinfeld.

By: Weinfeld, Moshe
Material type: TextTextSeries: Taubman lectures in Jewish studies: Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: xxi, 327 pages : maps ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0520075102Subject(s): Palestine -- In the Bible | Bible. Old Testament -- Historiography | Palestine -- Boundaries -- Biblical teaching | Gentiles in the Old TestamentDDC classification: 221.9/5 LOC classification: BS1199.P26 | W45 1993Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-288) and indexes.
Contents:
The patriarchal stories in the light of Greek foundation stories -- The pattern of Israelite settlement: a comparison with the pattern of Greek colonization -- The borders of the promised land: two views --Expulsion, dispossession, and extermination of the pre-Israelite population in the Biblical sources -- The conquest of the land of Canaan: reality and ideology -- The conquest and settlement according to the different accounts -- Two introductions to the period of Judges -- The inheritance of the land: privilege versus obligation -- The covenantal aspect of the promise of the land to Israel.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-288) and indexes.

The patriarchal stories in the light of Greek foundation stories -- The pattern of Israelite settlement: a comparison with the pattern of Greek colonization -- The borders of the promised land: two views --Expulsion, dispossession, and extermination of the pre-Israelite population in the Biblical sources -- The conquest of the land of Canaan: reality and ideology -- The conquest and settlement according to the different accounts -- Two introductions to the period of Judges -- The inheritance of the land: privilege versus obligation -- The covenantal aspect of the promise of the land to Israel.

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