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- Title: Undivided Inheritance and Lot Casting in the Book of Joshua.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2000
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 221 KB
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Most studies readily acknowledge that the book of Joshua falls into three main parts, chs. 1-12, the conquest; chs. 13-22, the division of the land; and an appendix in chs. 23-24. (1) Even though the term [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] "inheritance," (2) appears a total of forty-nine times throughout the work--twenty-one times in chs. 18 and 19 alone--little emphasis has been placed on its relevance for the interpretation of the book. (3) Interrelated with this is the curious feature of lot casting. Joshua 18:6 and 18:9-10 in particular present it as a procedure associated with the transfer of tribal land rights. Further exploration of the nature and purpose of lot casting may provide additional insight into a significant theme of the book of Joshua. Studies of the book of Joshua offer a wide range of explanations for the casting of lots. (4) R. G. Boling and G. E. Wright associated the procedure with the Levitical use of the Urim and Thummim as described in Deut 33:8. The allotment of the land was determined according to the "sacred dice," which revealed the divine will. (5) W. Dommershausen suggests that lot casting was a "sacred act," which, in the book of Joshua, demonstrated that Yahweh distributed the land himself. (6) Similarly, W. Rast identified the custom as a feature of "Yahweh's right to bestow the land as a gift." (7) According to M. Woudstra, the divinely guided lot established the region and dimension of the tribal properties. (8) Drawing on Greek materials, M. Weinfeld related the practice to Greek colonization procedures involving oracular consultations and the distribution of land by "divine lot." (9)
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