CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface

List of Contributors

part one LAND IN JOSHUA AND OTHER PARTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

Translator's Competence and Intention in lxx-Joshua 2 (Theo A.W. van der Louw)

"Sound the Trumpet!" Redaction and Reception of Joshua 6:2–25 (Michaël N. van der Meer)

"Is This Not Written in the Book of Jashar?" (Joshua 10:13c): References to Extra-Biblical Books in the Bible (Kristin De Troyer)

The Geographical Shape of the Unconquered Land in Joshua 13:2–5 mt and lxx (Cornelis den Hertog)

"Holy Land" in Joshua 18:1–10 (J. Cornelis de Vos)

"And the Land Was Subdued before Them . . ."? Some Remarks on the Meaning of  in Joshua 18:1 and Related Texts (Ute Neumann-Gorsolke)

Conquest of the Land, Loss of the Land: Where Does Joshua 24 Belong? (Mladen Popovic ")

Moses' Preparation of the March to the Holy Land: A Dialogue with Rolf P. Knierimon Numbers 1:1–10:10 (Horst Seebass)

Understanding the Pentateuch by Structuring the Desert: Numbers 21 as Compositional Joint (Christian Frevel)

From Joshua to Samuel: Some Remarks on the Origin of the Book of Judges (Klaas Spronk)

Judges 5 Reconsidered:Which Tribes? What Land? Whose Song? (Raymond de Hoop)

The Land in the Book of Hosea (Gert Kwakkel)

The Land in the Psalms (Patrick D. Miller)

Reversal of a Motif: The Land Is Given into the Hand of the Wicked.The Gift of Land in SomeWisdomTexts (Emke Jelmer Keulen)

Tobija und Nehemia: Ihre Feindschaft und derenMotive (Klaus-Dietrich Schunck)

part two LAND IN HISTORY AND THEOLOGY

Der heilige Ort im Leben und Glauben Altisraels (Walter Dietrich)

Volk ohne Land: Überlegungen zur religiösen Neuorientierung des jüdischen Volkes in der persischen Diaspora (Ruth Koßmann)

Land and Covenant in Jubilees 14 (Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten)

New Jerusalem at Qumran and in the New Testament (Florentino García Martínez)

The Desecration of "the Most Holy Temple of All the World" in the "Holy Land": Early Jewish and Early Christian Recollections of Antiochus' "Abomination of Desolation" (George H. van Kooten)

The Mountain of Transfiguration in the New Testament and in Later Tradition (Ton Hilhorst)

Josua im Urteil einiger Freidenker (Cornelis Houtman)

The Truth and Nothing but the Truth: Piety, Prophecy, and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion in 1 Kings 22 (Eep Talstra)

Monotheism and Violence: How to Handle a Dangerous Biblical Tradition (Rainer Albertz)

"And Jacob Set up a Pillar at Her Grave . . .": Material Memorials and Landmarks in the Old Testament (Rüdiger Schmitt)

The Fascination for the Holy Land during the Centuries (C.H.J. de Geus)

Bedouin Poetry and Landscape (Eveline J. van der Steen)

A Bibliography of Ed Noort

Index of Ancient Sources