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Historical Books Christopher T. Begg, Isaac Kalimi, and Matthew Genung 1603. [Joshua] Lissa M. Wray Beal, Joshua (The Story of God Bible Commentary [SBGC]; Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic Press, 2019). Pp. 640. $49.99. ISBN 978-0-310-49083-8. This volume is an entry in a new commentary series that examines each passage of the Bible book under consideration from a triple perspective summed up in the three rubrics "Listen to the Story"; "Explain the Story"; and "Live the Story." The volume opens with acknowledgments by B., a presentation of the SBGC series by the OT general editor (Tremper Longman III) and associate editors, and a list of abbreviations used. It continues with a rather extensive introduction to the Book of Joshua organized under the following overarching headings: Composition, Transmission and Canonicity; Literary Analysis; Structure; Historical Background; Theological Message: Reading Joshua with the Old and New Testaments, this concluding with a very brief (one and a half pages) bibliography entitled "Resources for Teaching and Preaching." In the commentary proper, B. breaks down Joshua's 24 chapters into 22 sections, each of which she treats using the series' three above-mentioned rubrics. Her presentation of each section opens with a translation of the section with an appended list of related ancient texts, both biblical and extrabiblical. Scattered throughout the commentary one finds a variety of informational charts; the "Live the Story" features reflection on the given segment inspired by the NT, the thoughts of commentators through the ages, and events of church and societal history. The volume closes with indexes of Scripture, subjects, and modern authors. 1604. [Joshua 13–19] Erasmus Gaß, Die Landverteilung im Josuabuch. Eine literar-historische Analyse von Josua 13–19 (FAT 132; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019). Pp. v + 437. €139. ISBN 978-3-16-156944-9. G.'s monograph seeks to reconstruct the formation-history of a seven-chapter segment of the Book of Joshua, whose focus is the distribution of their territories to the Israelites tribes. The volume's component chapters address the many textual literary- and redaction-critical problems posed by the various portions of Joshua 13–19. Synthesizing the results of his analysis in a concluding chapter, G. posits as the starting point for [End Page 555] the development of the extant segment Joshua 13–19 a priestly Grundschicht in Joshua 14–19* that incorporated into itself a preexisting list of sites and that featured a summary description of the boundaries of seven Cisjordanian tribes as the realization of the directives on the matter given by Moses in the Priestly text Numbers 34. Subsequently, in G.'s reconstruction, this underlying document underwent a triple process of supplementation, i.e. a priestly redaction, a late priestly redaction (both of which introduced allusions to the priestly materials in Numbers 26–36), and a priestly-Deuteronomistic redaction that gave Joshua 13–19 more or less its present form and that served to amalgamate the previously independently Priestly book of Joshua with the Deuteronomistic book of Joshua comprising chapters 1–12*. In a series of appendices, G. provides the text of the above strata as reconstructed by him in German translation. 1605. [Judges] Graham S. Ogden and Lynell Zaglo, A Handbook on Judges (UBS Handbook Series; Miami, FL: UBS, 2019). Pp. 1008. Paper $25. ISBN 978-0-8627-0106-0. This volume is part of a series specifically designed to assist contemporary translators of the Bible who may have only limited knowledge of the Bible's original languages. It opens with a short introductory section ("Translating Judges") that touches on a variety of preliminary matters, e.g., structure of the book, stylistic features, the notion of "judges," names and their renderings, the waw conjunction, textual questions, and genre. The heart of the volume is a verse-by-verse analysis of each of Judges' component verses. For purposes of this analysis, O. and Z. first present, side-by-side, the RSV and GNT renderings of the given verse, and then taking the former as a basis, comment on the various exegetical, stylistic and translational questions posed by the verse; in many instances they offer their own model/sample...