{"id":53641,"date":"2019-04-13T23:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T20:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=53641"},"modified":"2022-11-03T18:49:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:49:14","slug":"to-this-very-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/to-this-very-day\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTo This Very Day\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[366,622,860,806,420],"acf":{"old_id":"53641","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"196","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A reflection on historical time, and the narration of Joshua","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this chapter, we meet the inhabitants of Gibeon, a place not too distant from present-day Jerusalem, whose inhabitants hoodwinked the Israelites into coming to peaceful terms with them. By falsely giving the appearance of distant travelers (such as by carrying moldy bread, v. 12), they got Joshua and the elders to make a covenant with them. When the Israelites discovered the truth, however, they did not renege on their agreement granting them protection from any harm (19). Rather, they came up with the stratagem of declaring them to be \u201chewers of wood and drawers of water\u201d (21)\u2014permanent public servants\u2014which they remained \u201cto this very day\u201d (29).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The obvious question (which, to be honest, we might have raised already apropos of 4:9, 5:9, 6:25, 7:26, and 8:28,29) is, to which \u201cvery day\u201d (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hayom hazeh<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) is the verse referring? Don Isaac Abrabanel (1437-1508) devoted an extensive analysis to this question, arriving, in the process, at a highly unorthodox conclusion. Citing these and other examples in the introduction to his commentary on the Book of Joshua, he dismissed the talmudic implication that the words were written by Joshua himself because such notice is pointless when the narration follows so closely upon the events themselves. 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