 Indeed, as Robert Boling notes, such an establishment might have represented an ideal location for spies to gather intelligence.A number of scholars have noted that the narrator in Joshua 2 may have intended to remind the readers of the "immemorial symbiosis between military service and bawdy house".In the Christian New Testament, the Epistle of James and the Epistle to the Hebrews follow the tradition set by the translators of the Septuagint in using the Greek word "πόρνη" ("pórnē", which is usually translated to English as "harlot" or "prostitute") to describe Rahab.