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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