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    Joshua and Judges
    Joshua and Judges
    Joshua and Judges
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    Joshua and Judges

    By Athalya Brenner

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    The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Joshua and Judges focuses attention on themes and tensions at the beginning of Israel’s story in the Bible. How do these books represent conquest, war, trauma, violence
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFortress Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2013
    ISBN9781451426328
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