The Wandering of the Israelites to the Promised Land

1 SUMMARY THE WANDERING OF THE ISRAELITES TO THE PROMISED LAND Bc. Josef Bíca The work reflects a still very controversial area of the old testament history - the exodus and the conquest of the promised land. The first part of this work deals with the actual authorship of the Torah. It examines whether it is truly a work of Moses or the result of later authors. Based on those results, it focuses on the various critical points of the biblical text, for example the number of the wandering ones, the settlement of the stations and so on. On the basis of archeology and historiography it attempts to put the exodus stories into a corresponding century, both from the perspective of the Egyptians, and Israel's history. The same methods are used on the issues of the conquest of the land of Canaan ( the Promised Land ) and thus the book of Joshua.It focuses mainly on the so called thesis of conquest. The text of this work, however, also emphasizes that the issue of the exodus is still not fully resolved, especially because of the continuous development of science. The second part of this work focuses on the biblical text itself and its narrative in order to realize the theological emphasis of individual parts and the whole itself. But these attempts does not deny the exodus events, but rather highlights what is..