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Bibliography

Commentary
Boling, R. G. and G. E. Wright (1982). Joshua. Anchor Bible. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
Emphasizes the history and archaeology of Israel.

Butler, T. C. (1983). Joshua. Word Bible Commentary. Waco, TX: Word.
Insightful, from an evangelical Christian perspective.

Curtis, A. H. W. (1994). Joshua. Old Testament Guides. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic.
A short, student-oriented introduction to the content, critical issues, and theological perspectives of the book of Joshua.

Literary and Theological Analysis
Auld, A. G. (1980). Joshua, Moses and the Land: Tetrateuch-Pentateuch-Hexateuch in a Generation Since 1938. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark.

Hawk, L. D. (1991). Every Promise Fulfilled: Contesting Plots in Joshua. Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox.
Examines the interaction of two plot structures (obedience and disobedience; integrity and fragmentation) and interprets the data in terms of the desire for concordance and affirmation experienced by both the narrator and reader.

Wenham, G. J. (1971). "The Deuteronomic Theology of the Book of Joshua." Journal of Biblical Literature 90:140-56.

Archaeology of the Conquest

Bartlett, J. R. (1982). Jericho. Cities of the Biblical World. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

Stiebing, W. (1989). Out of the Desert? Archaeology and the Exodus/Conquest Narratives. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus.

Warfare and Theology of Conquest

Craigie, P. (1978). The Problem of War in the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

Lind, M. (1980). Yahweh is a Warrior. The Theology of Warfare in Ancient Israel. Scottsdale, PA: Herald.

Miller, P. D. (1973). The Divine Warrior in Early Israel. Cambridge: Harvard University.

Niditch, S. (1992). War in the Hebrew Bible. A Study in the Ethics of Violence. New York: Orbis.

Von Rad, G. (1991). Holy War in Ancient Israel. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

Williams, J. G. (1991). The Bible, Violence, and the Sacred. Liberation from the Myths of Sanctioned Violence. San Francisco: Harper & Row.

Search for Early Israel

Coote, R. B. (1990). Early Israel: A New Horizon. Minneapolis: Fortress.

Davies, P. R. (1992). In Search of 'Ancient Israel.' Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 148. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic.

Fritz, V. and P. R. Davies, eds. (1996). The Origins of the Ancient Israelite States.Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 228. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic.

Gottwald, N. K. (1979). The Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250-1050 B.C.E. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Kallai, Z. (1997). "The Twelve-Tribe Systems of Israel." Vetus Testamentum 47: 53-90.

Ramsey, G. W. (1981). The Quest for the Historical Israel. Atlanta: John Knox.

Rowlett, L. L. (1996). Joshua and the Rhetoric of Violence. A 'New Historicist' Analysis. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 226. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic.
Examines the book of Joshua asa a construction of national identity. Argues that the Deuteronomist used war-oracle language and epic-historical lore to negotiate sociopolitical boundaries. It asserts that text and context interacted in a program consolidating King Josiah's authority in the wake of Assyrian imperial collapse.

Shanks, H., W. G. Dever, B. Halpern, and P. K. McCarter, Jr. (1992). The Rise of Ancient Israel. Symposium at the Smithsonian Institution October 26, 1992. Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society.

Thompson, T. L. (1992). Early History of the Israelite People : from the Written and Archaeological Sources. Studies in the history of the ancient Near East 4. Leiden; New York : E. J. Brill.

Whitelam, K. W. (1994). "The Identity of Early Israel: The Realignment and Transformation of Late Bronze--Iron Age Palestine." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 63: 57-87.

Dever, W. G. (1996). "The Identity of Early Israel: A Rejoinder to Keith W. Whitelam." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 72: 3-24.
Argues that the current school of 'revisionist' historians of ancient Israel takes a needlessly 'minimalist' view, underestimating the potential of modern interdisciplinary archaeology for writing a history of a real 'ancient Israel' during the Monarchy, as well as a history of Iron Age Palestine.
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