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Apology for the Study of Joshua
Why are we studying this book of death, and killing?
Why are we in the OT?
Shouldn’t the “Old” of the Old Testament tell us that we should not be here?
The cross seems to have done something, something really big: Look at Rom. 10:4
Τελος carries the idea of “end, cessation, “the goal toward which a movement is being directed, end, goal, outcome”(BDAG, s.v.
“τέλος,” 998).
The section where this text is found is where Paul is addressing Israel.
Christ is the end of the Law, so why bother with the OT?
We are a New Testament church.
Paul gives a reason for what we should study the OT in 1 Cor.
10:11.
The church of Corinth was in a very pagan city.
D. Edmond Hiebert groups the letters to the Corinthians in the Soteriological Group (Salvation) which includes Galatians, and Romans.
The city of Corinth was a Gentile city.
Kind–of across from Athens.
“Corinth was an important city during the days of Homer, who spoke of it as ‘wealthy Corinth’” (Hiebert 1977, 103).
Τυπικως Adv.
Serving as an example.
Hapax Legomenon
νουθεσιαν – “counsel about avoidance or cessation of an improper course of conduct, admonition, instruction.”
(BDAG, s.v.
“νουθεσία,” 679).
Verses 12-33 focus on living correctly, based on who Christ is and we have an example of how not to live.
So the reason to study the books of Joshua is so that we can see Christ and know how not to live or how to stop improper behavior.
Introduction to Joshua
When you think of the book of Joshua, in what category would you put it in?
Protestant arrangement: Joshua is part of the Historical Books which is Joshua–Esther.
What is the problem with calling them Historic books?
You expect it to be historical, while what it records is historical accurate, there are a lot of gaps in information.
How did they set up their camps,
When the men went out to fight, what were the women doing?
How were they taking care of teaching the law, and obeying the festivals.
You might overlook the theological importance of the book.
Jewish arrangement: Joshua is part of the Prophets (נביאים).
By placing the text as being part of the prophets, it gives the information more of a REVELATION importance.
God would reveal to the prophet the message He wanted to communicate.
Eugene Merrill wrote that “Israel’s history is Heilsgechichte, a record not so much of words spoken and deeds done but of their meaning in terms of God’s ultimate design” (Merrill 2011, 273).
The text is about God’s “sacred history” (Merrill 2011, 273).
There is a big different when you are developing the theology of the book if you base your idea that the text is revelation from God or just religion of man.
Who?
Who are we talking about?
Who is this text about?
The title is Joshua.
Baba Bathra, in the Talmud attributes Joshua as the author (Merrill 2011, 272).
Joshua the son of Nun.
Joshua means “‘the Lord saves’ or ‘may the Lord save’” (Howard 1993, 60).
Nothing is known of the father
One of the twelve spies that went to spy out the land Num.
12-13.
Joshua 1:1 mentions Moses, and we know who Moses is, but is this Joshua fellow someone who really needs to have a book named after him?
Moses is the Lord’s servant, and Joshua is Moses’ servant, therefore Joshua is the Lord’s servant.
Joshua 1:2 the Lord spoke to Joshua to take Moses’ place.
But is this text just about Joshua?
Is the book a leadership book on how to lead people and conquer nations?
The book is also about Israel.
Specifically the it is about if Israel will obey God or disobey like we see in Deut.
11:26-28
The book of Joshua also involves the people in the land, we can call them the Canaanites.
Continuity and Discontinuity:
As we look at this text, we need to look at this issue because we could accidently think at the end of the study that the whole text is about a continuity and we should go out an conquer the land:
Continuity:
God’s character
Man’s fallenness
Two ways available to people: Choose today whom you will serve.
Discontinuity
The church does not have the Law
The church does not have a geographical land given to us
The church is not supposed to go out and kill people
What?
If we take the book as merely a historical book, then we can think of it in terms of conquest of a land.
However, if we see this as a development in the theology of Deuteronomy, that God placed before them blessing and cursing.
Blessing if they obeyed
Cursing if they disobeyed
Then the text is about how God used Israel as an instrument to judge the people of the land, and when Israel disobeyed, then God used the people of the land to judge Israel.
The book of Judges reminds me of Robert Frosts poem “The Road Not Taken”
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
(https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken)
Israel is in a place to either obey God, or disobey.
What I see in these narratives is that it shows us examples where individuals had to face the decision of either trusting God or trusting themselves.
It makes me think of another poem by an author not so well known Ron Hamilton.
Two choices on the shelf
Pleasing your God
Or pleasing yourself
Everyday you win or loose
It all depends on the one you choose.
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