Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Jim:

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:43 AM, <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:

>
> Kevin Edgecomb:
>
> …
> Certainly you are not suggesting that YHWH told Joshua to try to fight his
> way 150 long miles west from Gaza across the entire northern coast of the
> Sinai
> to “the Pelusiac branch of the Nile”, to try to bring in the entire
> northern
> Sinai as part of the Promised Land, are you?


You’ve got to be kidding when you ask this question, right?

Again, the context of the invasion following the Exodus was that God would
drive out the previous peoples little by little, over several generations,
not all at once (c.f. Exodus 23:30, Deuteronomy 7:22). Therefore the
suggestion that Joshua would lead the fight to finish the occupation is
nonsense.


>   …
> Jim Stinehart
> Evanston, Illinois
>

Karl W. Randolph.