{"product_id":"reading-joshua-as-christian-scripture","title":"Reading Joshua as Christian Scripture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book of \u003ci\u003eJoshua\u003c\/i\u003e has been received and used as Christian Scripture throughout Christian history. The challenge today, however, is how Christians should appropriately continue to read \u003ci\u003eJoshua\u003c\/i\u003e as Scripture, not least in the light of well-known historical and ethical difficulties with the narrative. In \u003ci\u003eReading Joshua as Christian Scripture\u003c\/i\u003e, Douglas Earl draws on conceptual resources offered by recent anthropological approaches to myth and combines this with a close literary reading of the text, in order to argue that Joshua is misconstrued when it is treated as a historical account of conquest. Instead, in its ancient Israelite context \u003ci\u003eJoshua\u003c\/i\u003e functioned to reshape accepted norms of community identity, as reflected in the book of Deuteronomy, by forming a new “cultural memory.” Furthermore, Earl reconsiders the traditional notion of the “spiritual sense” of Scripture in terms of a rich account of symbol and also makes use of the narrative hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. The result is a fresh and unexpected reading of \u003ci\u003eJoshua\u003c\/i\u003e as Christian Scripture that develops the original function of the narrative in a way that resonates with classic premodern readings and is also challenging to contemporary Christian understandings of identity and faithfulness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54225695211864,"sku":"9781575067018","price":44.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781575067018__6773e43a76688_090c688f-25c2-4ba6-af01-0ff00736684f.jpg?v=1741156126","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/reading-joshua-as-christian-scripture","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}