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Title: The Conquest of Canaan
Author: Dr. Bill Creasy
Narrator: Dr. Bill Creasy
Format: Original Recording
Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-19-17
Publisher: Logos Bible Study
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Bibles
Publisher's Summary:
After 40 years in the wilderness the Israelites begin their conquest of Canaan, the land God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In the book of Joshua, the Israelites cross the Jordan River, attacking Jericho - and we watch the walls come tumblin' down! By the end of Joshua, the Israelites have subdued most of the "Promised Land" and it is allocated to the 12 tribes - yet, there are still significant pockets of resistance, especially among the Philistines on the coastal plain. Joshua is a book of conquest, and in it we wrestle with the profoundly difficult problem of God commanding the Israelites to "put under the ban" all the conquered people; that is, to kill every man, woman, and child among them.
If Joshua is a book of conquest, Judges is a book of settlement. In it, the Israelites are little more than a loose confederation of 12 tribes, relatively isolated from one another by natural geographical and topographical boundaries, with little - if any - governing structure. In a time of crisis, the tribes coalesce and a leader emerges: a judge. Not a judicial figure, but a military one, a judge deals with the crisis and then - theoretically - returns to his (or her, in the case of Deborah) farm and routine family life. But when people obtain power, they are loath to give it up, and ultimately the judges become exceedingly corrupt. By the end of Judges, we read that in those days "Israel had no king and everyone did that which was right in his own eyes." It was a time of moral, political, economic, and religious chaos and depravity.
If we stand at the far end of Judges and look back over our shoulders, we see a charred, smoking, and bloody landscape. Then suddenly we spot a flash of light, a sparkling diamond in the muck and the mire. When we reach down and pick it up - we find in our hand the book of Ruth. The little book of Ruth - only four chapters long - is the greatest love story in the Bible, a story of the love between Ruth and her mother-in-law, Naomi; between Ruth and her husband, Boaz; and - if we extend our reading - the love between God and Israel, Christ and the Church. The book of Ruth is a recapitulation into the "bad old days" of the Judges, but in the end, the book of Ruth tells the story of redemption.
