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Part II — Joshua to Revelation (1898)
The Book of Joshua
The conquest of Canaan read for its women: Rahab, whose quick wits save the spies and her family, and Achsah, who asks her father for springs of water to go with her dowry of land — with Stanton's dry commentary on what the sacred historian chose to record.
Rahab of JerichoWomen in the conquest narrativeAchsah's dowry claim