"Joshua 24 has long been recognized as a crucial chapter for source-critical studies and for the reconstruction of Israel's early history. The present volume summarizes and evaluates previous (often contradictory) efforts to explain Joshua 24 on the basis of literary criticism, the role of covenant concepts in Israel's history writing, form-critical comparisons with treaty texts, archaeological approaches to the Shechem traditions, structural analysis and textual criticism. ' ... [a] comprehensive and formidably documented volume ... ' Christopher T. Begg, Old Testament Abstracts."@en
"The 'pivot pattern' is a unique type of chiasmus, a linguistic pattern characterized by an inversion of the internal order of a phrase or passage. The main idea is found primarily at its pivot, while its elements, normally of an uneven number, are distributed."@en
"Joshua 24 has long been recognized as a crucial chapter for source-critical studies and for the reconstruction of Israel''s early history. The present volume summarizes and evaluates previous (often contradictory) efforts to explain Joshua 24 on the basis of literary criticism, the role of covenant concepts in Israel''s history writing, form-critical comparisons with treaty texts, archaeological approaches to the Shechem traditions, structural analysis and textual criticism. ''...[a] comprehensive and formidably documented volume ...'' Christopher T. Begg, Old Testament Abstracts."@en

Joshua 24 as poetic narrative