This week’s class zooms in on the spy narrative—one of the most pivotal and perplexing episodes in the wilderness journey. But did it really happen the way we’ve always heard it? By placing Numbers 13–14 side by side with Deuteronomy 1, Ross exposes striking differences in how the mission is framed, who ordered it, and where the blame falls when it all goes wrong.

Are these just retellings with a different emphasis—or evidence of distinct sources woven into the final form of the text? Some scholars argue that the story of the spies may not be part of the oldest layer at all. Join us as we track the footprints of redactors, compare parallel passages, and “spy” the seams in the story.

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