The Pentateuch and the History of the Bible

Curtin: It's really interesting to find such a like poetic turn of phrase at the end of this dry, dusty geographic, you know, laden list. This is precisely the type of text that might be directly from a chronicles of the kings of Judah or Israel. And I think so many times the geographical texts and lists that we have in the Bible, people gloss over, but there's going to be so much that we can get out of this. Kurt: Can you just tell us about your kind of approach to how do you make these different types of material work together? We need to understand each on its own; it's important to bring out the listeners' point