Big Ideas · 17 · Moses and Joshua
They discovered, rather than invented, history
The exodus-conquest authors could have made up a story. Instead, they collected and connected earlier traditions, like Moses' grave near Nebo.
Synthesis, not fabrication.
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Memories of Joshua saving the Gibeonites originally had nothing to do with the exodus.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 282
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