Bulletin for Biblical Research 23, no. 1

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:24:46 +0000

The latest issue of the Bulletin for Biblical Research arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes:

Joshua Philpot, “Exodus 34:29–35 and Moses’ Shining Face”
Edward Bridge, “The Metaphoric Use of Slave Terms in the Hebrew Bible”
Gregory Goswell, “Joshua and Kingship”
Gregory Wong, “A Farewell to Arms: Goliath’s Death as Rhetoric against Faith in Arms”
David DeSilva, “The Human Ideal, the Problem of Evil, and Moral Responsibility in 4 Maccabees”

Faithful Rahab

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:14:24 +0000

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“150” caption=“Rahab Helping the Two Israelite Spies (Image via Wikipedia)”] [/caption]

After assuming leadership over Israel ( Josh 1:10–18), Joshua commissions two men to survey Jericho and the surrounding area ( Josh 2:1a). Rather tersely, then, the menוילכו ויבאו בית־אשׁה זונה ושׁמה רחב וישׁכבו־שׁמה ( Josh 2:1b; went and entered the house of a prostitute, whose name was Rahab, and they lodged there). For onlookers, such an action might not have been unusual in itself, 1 but by some means or other, the king became aware of these Israelite’s intent to survey Jericho ahead of some forthcoming military action ( Josh 2:3).

Joshua on J. David Stark

Bulletin for Biblical Research 23, no. 1

Faithful Rahab