In case you’re wondering why the reading plan is about to start skipping chapters in Joshua…
I skipped a Friday post for a Saturday post this week because today (June 13th) is the last consecutive reading from the book of Joshua in Morning Prayer. After today we skip from chapter 10 to chapter 14, and after that jump all the way to chapter 22 to finish the book from there on. That’s a lot of skipped material, what’s going on?
The book of Joshua contains a lot of writing that is stereotyped and repetitive, as well as lengthy portions that are essentially maps in prose form. Think of the first half Joshua as a train: it starts moving very slowly (conquering one town at a time, with specific stories at each encounter), then it speeds up bit by bit as it gives an account of the conquest of the Promise Land in larger and larger pieces. It is obvious that there is a lot of history…
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