Old Testament · Historical Books
Joshua
Joshua records Israel entering the land God promised, and the book keeps insisting that the land was given rather than won. It ends with a call to choose whom the people will serve.
- Authorship
- The book does not name its author. Jewish tradition associates it with Joshua and later scribes.
- Historical setting
- Canaan, after the wilderness years.
- Key themes
- Promise kept · Courage · Holy war and its limits · Covenant renewal
- Where it sits in the story
- The promise of land made to Abraham reaching its first fulfilment.
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