Abstract
Greenspoon talks about whether the concept of the Promised Land biblical. The words "Promised Land" are found in neither the King James Version nor the New American Standard Bible--to name just two of the most widely read translations. Yet "Promised Land" does appear once in the New international Version in Hebrews 11:9 of the New Testament. For the committee responsible for the New Living Translation, however, there are no occurrences in the New Testament--but ten in the Old Testament (five in the Pentateuch, two in the Book of Joshua and three in the psalter). Readers of today's popular press are probably happy if not downright relieved, that contemporary writers and reporters don't concern themselves with such issues of attestation. Rather, they make regular reference to a/the Promised Land as the goal to which a variety of individuals or groups aspire.