Christine Hayes continues her Yale survey of the Hebrew Bible with a lecture on the Deuteronomistic History, the theological framework in which Israel's national fortunes rise and fall with its fidelity to the covenant. She opens by tying Deuteronomy back to the Pentateuch and source theory, then turns to the Former Prophets, situating Joshua and Judges within the geography and history of Canaan. The lecture examines the structure of the book of Joshua and its account of conquest, then sets that narrative against three competing scholarly models for how Israel actually emerged as a nation state in the land, weighing conquest, peaceful infiltration, and internal social revolt theories against the archaeological and textual evidence. It is a close, source-critical look at how biblical narrative and historical reconstruction diverge.