For For pastors, students and scholars working closely on the text; not for a first reading of the book or for devotional use.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
5 of 5essential
Difficulty
4 of 5hard
A full scholarly commentary on Joshua in the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament: his own translation, textual and historical notes, and theological reflection section by section. For close study, not first reading.
How it proceeds
Philosophic1 of 5
Scriptural5 of 5
Experiential0 of 5
Sociological2 of 5
Historical4 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
His commentary on Joshua in the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament: Historical Books, published by Baker Academic in 2023. It addresses the book's accounts of conquest and violence within the story of the book as a whole; his Grove booklet Reading Joshua gives a short version of his reading.
Joshua
by John Goldingay
For For pastors, students and scholars working closely on the text; not for a first reading of the book or for devotional use.
Should I read this?
A full scholarly commentary on Joshua in the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament: his own translation, textual and historical notes, and theological reflection section by section. For close study, not first reading.
How it proceeds
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
His commentary on Joshua in the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament: Historical Books, published by Baker Academic in 2023. It addresses the book's accounts of conquest and violence within the story of the book as a whole; his Grove booklet Reading Joshua gives a short version of his reading.
Catalog ID
W.HR29BY.Q