“Twelve spies went to spy in Canaan; ten were bad, two were good. But who can ever say inside the churning maelstrom of history and memory’s distortions which we really were? And who can say ...

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By the end of this fine novel, the biblical reference in the title is all too clear: “Twelve spies went to spy in Canaan; ten were bad, two were good. But who can ever say inside the churning ...

The 12 return, describing a land flowing with ... In addition, the 40 days that the spies were in Canaan would now result in the Israelites wandering for 40 years, and all over the age of twenty ...

Moses’ 12 spies, who surface in this week’s ... Spies Bring Back the Cluster of Grapes from the Land of Canaan,” the spies look particular ugly and fierce, as they do in Jost Amman’s ...

In that passage, Moses asks 12 spies, including the famous Biblical hero Joshua, to scout out the land of Canaan. Moses had good reason for sending the reconnaissance mission: He wanted to know ...

He speaks openly, resisting prepackaged answers when answering questions like my first: where did his new book Spies in ... reciting it): “Twelve spies went to spy in Canaan/Ten were bad ...