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The second chapter of Joshua is the perfect example of a book of the Prophets referencing stories in the Torah. These references show both contrasts and connections between the well-known stories in the Torah, and the current ones being played out. Three examples in Chapter 2:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. The chapter begins with Joshua sending two spies to Jericho. It is no coincidence that Joshua\u2019s first act as leader of the people is sending two spies. Joshua was one of the original 12 spies sent to the land of Canaan in Numbers. This time, Joshua himself orders the spies be sent. In the Torah, it seems as if the people had made the request and God and\/or Moses reluctantly agreed.\u00a0 Joshua also makes sure to send only two spies for a very specific mission in one location. Perhaps this is an indication that the original spies with their grandiose mission were doomed from the onset. The success of this mission is also an indication that Joshua is trying to right the wrongs of the past. He may also realize that the people will be calmer with a successful mission.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The two spies encounter Rahab, an innkeeper\/prostitute. She hides them on her roof when the king of Jericho comes looking for them. This story evokes the story of the two angels who came to visit Lot in Genesis. In that story, Lot tries to confront the angry mob by offering his own daughters to save the guests. In the end, the two angels must save Lot and his family- telling them to flee to the mountainside while Sodom is destroyed. Here, Rahab is the one who saves the two visitors. She artfully distracts the local guard and tells the two men to run to the hills to safety. Rahab takes the place of the angels in this flipped story. Perhaps the message here is that in the books of the Prophets, God does not always act in an outward manner. Help may not come from obvious angels, but from the most unlikely places.<\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Rahab also tells the spies that she believes in God because she has heard all about the wonders God performed on behalf of the Israelites including \u201cFor we have heard how the Lord dried up the waters of the Sea of Suf before you, when you came out of Mi\u017crayim\u201d (verse 10). This recalls another foreigner who favored the Israelites because of what he heard about Egypt: \u201cJethro priest of Midian, Moses\u2019 father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel, God\u2019s people, how God had brought Israel out from Egypt\u201d (Exodus 18:1). The text specifically links Rahab to Yitro to signal that she is a true believer in God and is to be trusted.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    These three examples show that the books of the Prophets are carefully written with the previous books of the Torah in mind as a way to convey a deeper message or suggest a specific feeling about a character.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    A Canaanite woman living in Jericho, Rahab is a prostitute who is also a biblical heroine. According to the narrative in Joshua 2,<\/span> before the conquest of Canaan, Joshua sends two men as spies to see the land. They come to Rahab\u2019s house for lodging, information, and\/or sex. The king, hearing about the two men, demands that Rahab give them up. Like the midwives in Egypt, Rahab is faced with a \u201cmoment of truth.\u201d Like them, Rahab defies the ruler and rescues the Israelites. She tells the king\u2019s men that the two men have left and that the king\u2019s men should chase them. Meanwhile, she has hidden the men under the flax drying on her roof (2:4); the writer uses the unusual word <\/span>ti<\/span><\/i>z<\/span><\/i>peno, <\/span><\/i>\u201cshe hid him\u201d (even though there are two men), perhaps as an allusion to Exod 2:2, where Moses\u2019s mother hides her newborn <\/span>(ti<\/span><\/i>z<\/span><\/i>penehu). <\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

    Rahab is midwife and mother to Israel in its beginnings in Canaan.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Rahab lets the two men out through her window, which is in the town wall. She requests a return for her act of <\/span>hesed<\/span><\/em>, special kindness. She asks that she and her family be spared once the Israelites attack Jericho. The spies give her a crimson thread to hang from her window, with the injunction that she is to gather her family and wait inside her house; as long as they stay indoors, they will be spared, just as the Israelites who stayed in houses marked with the blood of the paschal lamb were spared the fate of the Egyptians.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Rahab has a special function in the biblical narratives of Israel\u2019s existence in the land. When uncovering the men, she explains that she knows that God will give Israel the land (2:8). She declares (quoting from the Song of Miriam in Exodus 15; see v. 11) that \u201cdread\u201d has fallen on the inhabitants and that they all \u201cfear\u201d Israel (2:9). This is the message that the men bring back to Joshua. Rahab is thus the oracle of Israel\u2019s occupation of the land. Another woman, the prophet Deborah, announced a major victory in the taking of Canaan; and the end of Israel\u2019s occupation of the land is pronounced by yet another woman, the prophet Huldah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Rahab, who begins as triply marginalized\u2014Canaanite, woman, and prostitute\u2014moves to the center as bearer of a divine message and herald of Israel in its new land. Even though later generations of readers have been squeamish about her occupation, preferring to think of her as an \u201cinnkeeper,\u201d she is remembered in Jewish tradition as the great proselyte, as ancestress of kings and prophets, and, in the New Testament, as ancestress of Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    From: The Jewish Women\u2019s Archive (<\/span>https:\/\/jwa.org\/encyclopedia\/article\/rahab-bible<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Image: \u00a0<\/span>Rahab Receiveth and Concealeth the Spies,<\/span> Frederick Richard Pickersgill, 1881 \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    \u201cJoshua son of Nun sent two spies from Shittim, saying, \u201cGo, survey the land, and the city of Jericho.\u201d So they set out\u2026. \u201c (Joshua 2:1)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Wait, one second. Joshua is sending spies to check out the land? This doesn\u2019t sound right\u2026isn\u2019t this the same Joshua who went in with the spies in Deuteronomy, which resulted in a monumental calamity for the Israelites? \u00a0Doesn\u2019t he remember? Doesn\u2019t he know the risks? How could he send spies again?!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    However, a careful reading of the two stories in Tanach will notice some major differences. First the number: Moses sent 12 spies to scout out the land of Canaan. Joshua sends 2. Then there's the\u00a0<\/span>nature of these spies<\/span>: Moses sent in the heads of tribes. Joshua simply sent spies. We have no idea of their status.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And there\u2019s one glaring difference staring the reader in the face. The text uses an odd word to describe the spies being sent: <\/span>cheresh<\/span><\/i>. The meaning of this word in this verse is hard to understand. The word literally means deaf (or silent). Are we to understand that Joshua sent deaf spies? Rashi tries to understand this word and comes up with two possible readings:<\/span><\/p>\r\n