volume 9, issue 1, 2017, pages 15-43

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsENRU9297
Published online: 2017-06-01
Published in print: 2017-06-30

Abstract: One of the most difficult texts of the Bible to explain according to the document The Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture (2014) is the large block Josh 6–12. The study in its first part presents the hermeneutic guidelines of ITSS (n. 127) related to one of the most problematic texts of the OT – namely to the law of extermination. In the second part, the study discusses the issue of understanding the term especially in the Book of Joshua (ḥerem/חרם). In the third part, it deals with the three interpretation keys for the first half of the Book Joshua. The first one is Dozeman’s proposal based on the motif of the ark and its trajectory, the second one is based on the comparison of the biblical texts with the Assyrian textual warfare traditions, and the third key is based on the literary disposition of the four great episodes in the block Josh 5,13–9,29.