Joshua


Verse-by-Verse Commentaries:

Richard S. Hess, Joshua: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale, 6), 1996. ****
Marten H. Woudstra, The Book of Joshua (NICOT), Eerdmans, 1981. ***1/2
Trent Butler, Joshua (Word), Word Books, 1983. ***1/2

Monographs, Compilations, and Studies:

Richard S. Hess, Textual Considerations of Joshua, Westminster Media, tape series.
W. T. Koopmans, Joshua 24 as Poetic Narrative (JSOT Supplement, 93), Sheffield Acedemic, 1990.
Robert Polzin (ed.), Moses and the Deuteronomist: A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History, Part 1:
____ Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature), Indiana University Press, 1993.
O. Palmer Robertson, Joshua: Conquest of the Land, Westminster Media, tape series.

Articles and Essays:

Robert C. Culley, "Stories of the Conquest," HAR 8 (1985): 25-44.
Jeffrey J. Niehaus, "Joshua and Ancient Near Eastern Warfare," JETS 31 (1988): 37-50.
Bruce K. Waltke, "The Date of the Conquest," WTJ 52 (1990) 181-200.


More Commentaries:

Robert Boling and Ernest Wright, Joshua (Anchor), Doubleday, 1982. ***
Robert B. Coote, "Joshua" in
The New Interpreter's Bible, vol. II, Abingdon, 1998.
John J. Davis,
Conquest and Crisis, Baker, 1969.
E. John Hamlin, Inheriting the Land (ITC), Eerdmans, 1983. ***
David M. Howard Jr., Joshua, Broadman & Holman, 1998.
Richard Nelson, Joshua (OTL), Westminster John Knox, 1997.
J. A. Soggin, Joshua, (OTL), Westminster John Knox Press, 1972.

More Monographs:

Lyle Eslinger, Into the Hands of the Living God (Bible and Literature, 24), Almond, 1989.
William T. Koopmans, Joshua 24 as Poetic Narrative (JSOT Sup, 93), Sheffield Academic Press, 1990.
Nicolai Winther-Nielsen, A Functional Discourse Grammar of Joshua: A Computer-Assisted Rhetorical Structure Analysis
____ (Coniectanea Biblica: Old Testament, 40), Almqvist & Wiksell, 1995.

More Articles:

Mark E. Biddle, "Literary Structures in the Book of Joshua," Review and Expositor 95 (1998): 189-201.
Paul R. House, "God Who Gives Rest in the Land: Joshua," Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 2 (1998): .
Magnus Ottosson, "Tradition History: With Emphasis on the Composition of the Book of Joshua" in The Productions of Time:
____ Tradition History in Old Testament Scholarship (ed. Knud Jeppesen and Benedikt Otzen), Almond Press, 1984: 81-106.
William T. Koopmans, "The Poetic Prose of Joshua 23" in The Structural Analysis of Biblical and Canaanite Poetry (JSOT Sup, 74)
____ ed. Wim van der Meer and J. C. de Moor, Sheffield Academic Press, 1988: 83-118.

Tikva Frymer-Kensky, "Reading Rahab" in Tehillah le-Moshe (ed. M. Cogan, et al), 1997: 57-67.

Not Yet Reviewed:

Jan Svensson, Towns and Toponyms in the Old Testament with Special Emphasis on Joshua 14-21 (Coniectanea Biblica:
____ Old Testament Series, 138), Coronet Books, 1994.