I am also most grateful to my student Paul Friedfertig for his help in preparing the indexes for this book. Brill, Leiden, for permission to publish here Chapter 2, which has been published before in Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 40 (1988) 270–283 (pages 22–41 here) and in Vetus Testamentum 38 (1988) 324–332 (pages 41–51 here). Peeters for permission to publish here Chapter 1, which has been previously published in Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 23, Leuven 1988 (edited by M. Rahel Yaniv for her help in preparing the bibliography and for other functions connected with the work. David Wright for their help in preparing the manuscript for publication, and to Mrs. Many thanks to my friends Marc Bernstein, John Gee, and P. Gruen of the University of California at Berkeley for their advice concerning the problems connected with the Greek and Roman civilization. I am also deeply grateful to my colleagues D. Brinner for his initiative in the publishing of the book. Milgrom for the invitation to the Taubman Lectures. I am grateful to my colleagues at Berkeley for the hospitality extended to my wife and me during our stay there. The three lectures that I delivered at Berkeley served as a point of departure for a comprehensive treatment of the problem of the land of Israel, including a literary investigation and studies of historico-geographical problems, the nature of the historiography, and historical, ideological, and theological dimensions. This book, therefore, contains nine chapters, covering the most significant aspects of the theme. Berkeley, that I not limit myself to the publication of the three lectures, but submit for publication the whole theme, including all aspects. Brinner, then the head of the department of Near Eastern studies at U.C. Since these three lectures are only a part of a very complex subject, I suggested to Professor Z. I was offered the opportunity to publish these lectures. the ban of the Canaanites, its development, its meaning, and its significance.

Two Divergent Views concerning the extent of the Promised Land ģ. the promise of the Land to the Patriarchs and its realization in light of Greek foundation stories Ģ. Out of the broad range of aspects of this theme that I investigated in the last decade, I decided to take up the following three subjects:ġ. I chose to lecture on the theme of the inheritance of the land of Canaan by the Israelites, a theme that contains a very broad spectrum of issues. When I was honored to serve as visiting Taubman Professor at the University of California at Berkeley during the spring semester of 1989, one of my duties was to deliver three public lectures.

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