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NOTES TO OVERVIEW OF BIBLICAL BOOKS EXCERPTED IN THE HAFTAROT CYCLE The Book ofJoshua 1. For the conquests of Caleb and Othniel after the death ofJoshua, see Rashi at Josh. 15:14-16 and Ralbag at Judg. 1:10. ~ 2. See the introduction to his commentary on the Former Prophets. ~ 3. See Albrecht Alt, "Josua," in Kleinere Schriften (Mmlich: C. H. Beck, 1953), 176-92; and especially, "Das system der Stammesgrenzen in Buche Josua" ibid., 193-202. ~ 4. See G. Ernest Wright, "The Literary and Historical Problem ofJoshua X and Judges 1,"]NES 5 (1946): 105-14. ~ 5. Cf. Frank M. Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973), 274--89. ~ 6. For a review of the sources examining the composition ofJoshua in the preceding generation, see Moshe D . Cassuto, s. v. "The Book of Joshua" EM 3:544--47. A contemporary review with a full bibliography is provided by Robert Boling,]oshua, AB 6 (New York: Doubleday, 1982), 55-72. Boling also provides a critique of the influential position of Martin Noth; for his view see, for example, "Studien zu den historisch-geographischen Dokumenten des Josuabuches," ZDPV58 (1935): 185-255. ~ 7. On these thematic features, see Moshe Weinfeld , "The Period of the Conquest and of the Judges as Seen by Earlier and Later Sources" VT 17 (1967), especially 105-13. ~ 8. Thus in addition to mentioning cities conquered in the narratives, such as Jericho and Ai, the catalogue in Josh. 12:9-24 mentions other cities otherwise lllspecified in the text-like Hormah and Arad in the south; Bethel and Tappuah in the Sharon (according to the Septuagint); Tirzah in the central region; and Taanach and Megiddo in the north. In addition , the list mentions kings otherwise unreported, like the king of Goiim. ~ 9. For studies on these boundary lists, see Zecharia Kallai, The Tribes ofIsrael: A Study in the Historical Geography ofthe Bible (in Hebrew) (Jemsalem: Mosad Bialik, 1967). See also the discussion and literature in Boling,]oshua, 64-66. ~ 10. See PdRK, piska 11: 12 (Va-yhi be-shallab ) (ed. Bernard Mandelbamn [New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1962], 1:187f.); MdRSbY (ed. JacobN. Epstein and Ezra Z. Melamed [Jemsalem: Mekize Nirdamim, 1955], 46); B. Sot. 13a; and also the Testament of Simon 8:1-3. For various aspects of the motif and its development, see Joseph Heinemalm,AMadah andIts Development (in Hebrew) (Jemsalem: Keter, 1974),49-55; and also James Kugel, In PotipharJs House (New York: Harper/Collins, 1990), chap. 5. ~ 11. See Cross, CanaaniteMyth andHebrew Ethic; and Boling,]oshua, with a full bibliography. ~ 12. On these leagues (often referred to as a tribal amphicryony), see Boling,]oshua, 129f. ~ 13. The contents of this "text" is unknown; presmnably, it was something like a book of royal rules or ordinances. See Yehezkel Kaufmann, Scfer Yehoshu c a (Jemsalem: Kiryat Sefer, 1959), 254-55 andn. 7. ~ The Book ofJudges 1. For this editorialdevice ofresumptive repetition and for prior literature, see Michael Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985), index, s. v. "Wiederaufnahme"; also see Burke 0. Long, "Framing Repetitions in Biblical Historiography" JBL 106 (1987): 385-99. Marc Brettler has also observed this device here and speculated that it indicates that Judg. 1:1-2:10 was originally an appendix to the Book of Joshua, now treated as the prologue to the Book of Judges; see his"Jud 1, 1-2, 10:From Appendix to Prologue," in ZA.W 101 (1989): 433-35. Whatever the original status of Judges 1, the repetition of Joshua's death notice in Judg. 2:6--10 serves to begin the work witl1 a statement regarding the death of a leader (cf. Judg. 1:1; Josh. 1:1). ~ 2. The Hebrew term is rnab; NJPS translates more figuratively, "an inspired man." ~ 3. It is the opinion of Yehezkel Kaufmatm, Scfer Shofetim (Jerusalem: Kiryat Sefer, 1964), 1--4, that there is a clear distinction between "wars ofconquest" and "wars of liberation"; he further distingllishes these from the "imperial wars" of the monarchic period (ibid., 4-5). ~ 4. See JohnH. Hayes andJ. MaA'WellMiller,Israelite andJudaean History (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1977), pt. 4 (by Miller), esp. secs. 2-3. ~ 5. See n. 1. In my view, even ifJudg. 2:6-10 is part of an editorial resmnption, it now flllctions as the formal beginning ofthe history through reference to the death of the prior hero. ~ 6. The meaning of the term shofet, here rendered "chieftain," is much...

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