The Promise of the Land
  The Taubman Professorship and Lectures
  Acknowledgments
  Abbreviations
  Introduction

 expand section1—  The Patriarchal Stories in the Light of Greek Foundation Stories
 expand section2—  The Pattern of Israelite Settlement:  A Comparison with the Pattern of Greek Colonization
 expand section3—  The Borders of the Promised Land:  Two Views
 expand section4—  Expulsion, Dispossession, and Extermination of the Pre-Israelite Population in the Biblical Sources
 collapse section5—  The Conquest of the Land of Canaan:  Reality and Ideology
 •1—  Albright's Archaeological School
 •2—  The School of Alt and Noth
 •3—  The Mendenhall-Gottwald School
 expand section6—  The Conquest and Settlement According to the Different Accounts
  7—  Two Introductions to the Period of Judges
 expand section8—  The Inheritance of the Land:  Privilege versus Obligation
 expand section9—  The Covenantal Aspect of the Promise of the Land to Israel

  Bibliography
 expand sectionIndex of Texts
 expand sectionIndex of Subjects
 expand sectionIndex of Scholars
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