If so, why does the book of Joshua provide such a different account, one of outside conquest by means of a war led by the hosts of the Lord?

若这样，为什么《约书亚书》中是完全不同的描述，是由上帝所带领的外部侵略战争？

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The essay that you read was produced at the behest of his French publisher. They wanted him to write something that would make people feel better about the book, that would give some account of its origin and give some defense for its publication and its content.

你们所读到的那篇短文就是在法国出版商的要求下写的,他们希望他写些什么来让人们对这本书产生更多的好感,来交待这本书的缘起,并且为它的内容和它的出版进行辩护。

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So the first half of the book of Joshua contains a streamlined, idealized account according to which the Israelites managed in a relatively short period to take the central hill country, confining the Philistines to a little strip here on the coastal plain. We will come to the Philistines in a minute.

因此《约书亚书》第一部分包含了,一种流线行，理想化的叙述，据此,以色列人在相对较短的时期内设法,攫取中央山地，将腓利士人，逼至狭窄条形地带,逼至海岸平原，我们待会儿将要说到腓利士人。

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And I worked with that account book, because one of the two slaves I write about in this new book called A Slave No More I publish their two narratives was indeed a young 14-year-old teenager, sold out of North Carolina--from Snow Hill, North Carolina, he was sold in 1860 to Hector Davis in Richmond.

我研究过这本账簿,因为我在这本新著《从奴隶到自由》中,引用了两名奴隶的自述,当时他们年仅十四岁,其中一个从北卡罗来纳州,从北卡罗来纳的斯诺希尔被卖掉,在1860年被卖给了,里士满的赫克托·戴维斯

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