Thomas B. Clarke

Joshua's Spiritual Warfare: Understanding the Chiasms of Joshua Thomas B. Clarke

Joshua's Spiritual Warfare: Understanding the Chiasms of Joshua demonstrates how discovering the chiasms in the Bible can reveal a fresh depth and revelation of the Scripture.

The Book of Joshua contains many exciting literary techniques that add richness and meaning to its stories. By looking at some of these techniques, Joshua's Spiritual Warfare uncovers subtleties in the adventurous conquest into the promised land that are often not revealed. The result is a fresh understanding of the challenges that confronted Joshua, the spiritual principles behind them, and the application for similar victory in your life.

In Joshua's Spiritual Warfare, a fascinating process known as the chiastic (ky'-as-tic) approach is used to reveal how chiasms add emphasis in the Bible. By studying Joshua in this way, his campaign is presented as a success in spiritual warfare. The chiasms reveal 80 underlying principles that can be applied to each of our lives.

Unlike academic books that target a scholarly audience, Joshua's Spiritual Warfare makes chiasms understandable to a broad range of people by walking through the 24 chapters of Joshua. In addition to the chiasms, it develops and explains the many symbolic and illustrative pictures in the text such as its geography and its characters. These vivid lessons will help you understand the obstacles that were overcome. 

Never heard of chiasms before? Don't feel alone because the study of this approach has been largely confined to the halls of Christ-centered institutions of higher learning. Even then, while most professors are familiar with chiasms, many pastors have not heard of it. This book uses the chiastic structure of Joshua to reveal the profound beauty of these literary forms.