Joshua

Central figure in the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Joshua

JoshuaBornGoshen (Lower Egypt), Ancient EgyptDiedCanaanVenerated inJudaism, Christianity, IslamMajor shrineTomb of Joshua (Samaritan and Jewish tradition)Joshua’s Hill, Al-Nabi Yusha’, etc. (Muslim traditions)Feast

AttributesOften depicted with Caleb, carrying the grapes out of Canaan

Joshua () or Yehoshua (Hebrew: יְהוֹשֻׁעַ‎ Yəhōšuaʿ,‍ Tiberian: Yŏhōšuaʿ, lit. ‘Yahweh is salvation’)[b][2][3] functioned as Moses’ assistant in the books of Exodus and Numbers, and later succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelite tribes in the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Joshua. His name was Hoshea (הוֹשֵׁעַ‎ Hōšēaʿ,‍ lit. ‘Save’)[5] the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him “Yehoshua” (translated as “Joshua” in English),[6] the name by which he is commonly known in English. According to the Bible, he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus.
The Hebrew Bible identifies Joshua as one of the twelve spies of Israel sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan. In Numbers 13:1,[7] and after the death of Moses, he led the Israelite tribes in the conquest of Canaan, and allocated lands to the tribes. According to biblical chronology, Joshua lived some time in the Bronze Age. According to Joshua 24:29,[8] Joshua died at the age of 110.
Joshua holds a position of respect among Muslims. Muslims also see Joshua as the leader of the faithful following the death of Moses. In Islam, it is also believed that Yusha bin Nun (Joshua) was the “attendant” of Moses mentioned in the Quran before Moses meets Khidr. Joshua plays a role in Islamic literature, with significant narration in the hadith.[9][10]

Name
The English name “Joshua” is a rendering of the Hebrew Yehoshua, and is mostly interpreted as “Yahweh is salvation”;[12] although others have also alternatively interpreted it as “Yahweh is lordly”. The theophoric name appears to be constructed from a combination of the Tetragrammaton with the Hebrew noun יְשׁוּעָה (Modern: yəšūʿa, Tiberian: yăšūʿā), meaning “salvation”;[14][15][16][17] derived from the Hebrew root ישׁע (y-š-ʿ), meaning “to save/help/deliver”.[18][19] Other theophoric names sharing a similar meaning can also be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, such as that of the son of David אֱלִישׁוּעַ (ʾĔlīšūaʿ), whose name means “My El (God) is salvation”.[20][21]
“Jesus” is the English derivative of the Greek transliteration of “Yehoshua” via Latin. In the Septuagint, all instances of the word “Yehoshua” are rendered as “Ἰησοῦς” (Iēsoūs), the closest Greek pronunciation of the Imperial Aramaic: יֵשׁוּעַ Yēšūaʿ.[22][23][24][25] Thus, in modern Greek, Joshua is called “Jesus son of Naue” (τοῦ Ναυή, toũ Nauḗ) to differentiate him from Jesus. This is also true in some Slavic languages following the Eastern Orthodox tradition (e.g. “Иисус Навин”, Iisús Navín, in Bulgarian, Serbian and Russian, but not Czech).

Biblical narrative

The Exodus
Moses Blesses Joshua Before the High Priest (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by James Tissot)
Joshua was a major figure in the events of the Exodus. He was charged by Moses with selecting and commanding a militia group for their first battle after exiting Egypt, against the Amalekites in Rephidim,[26] in which they were victorious.
He later accompanied Moses when he ascended biblical Mount Sinai to commune with God,[27] visualize God’s plan for the Israelite tabernacle and receive the Ten Commandments. Joshua was with Moses when he descended from the mountain, heard the Israelites’ celebrations around the Golden Calf,[28] and broke the tablets bearing the words of the commandments. Similarly, in the narrative which refers to Moses being able to speak with God in his tent of meeting outside the camp, Joshua is seen as custodian of the tent (‘tabernacle of meeting’) when Moses returned to the Israelite encampment.[29] However, when Moses returned to the mountain to re-create the tablets recording the Ten Commandments, Joshua was not present, as the biblical text states “no man shall come up with you”.[30]
Later, Joshua was identified as one of the twelve spies sent by Moses to explore and report on the land of Canaan,[31] and only he and Caleb gave an encouraging report, a reward for which would be that only these two of their entire generation would enter the promised land.[32]
According to Joshua 1:1,[33] God appointed Joshua to succeed Moses as leader of the Israelites along with giving him a blessing of invincibility during his lifetime.[34] The first part of the book of Joshua covers the period when he led the conquest of Canaan.

Conquest of Canaan

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon by John Martin
At the Jordan River, the waters parted, as they had for Moses at the Red Sea. The first battle after the crossing of the Jordan was the Battle of Jericho. Joshua led the destruction of Jericho, then moved on to Ai, a small neighboring city to the west. However, they were defeated with thirty-six Israelite deaths. The defeat was attributed to Achan taking an “accursed thing” from Jericho; and was followed by Achan and his family and animals being stoned to death to restore God’s favor. Joshua then went to defeat Ai.
The Israelites faced an alliance of five Amorite kings from Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon. At Gibeon, Joshua asked the LORD to cause the sun and moon to stand still, so that he could finish the battle in daylight. According to the text, the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. This event is most notable because “There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD heeded the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel.”[36] The LORD also fought for the Israelites in this battle, for he hurled huge hailstones from the sky which killed more Canaanites than those which the Israelites slaughtered. From there on, Joshua was able to lead the Israelites to several victories, securing much of the land of Canaan. He presided over the Israelite gatherings at Gilgal and Shiloh which allocated land to the tribes of Israel (Joshua 14:1–5 and 18:1–10), and the Israelites rewarded him with the Ephraimite city of Timnath-heres or Timnath-serah, where he settled (Joshua 19:50).
According to the Talmud, Joshua in his book enumerated only those towns on the frontier.[c]

Death

When he was “old and well advanced in years”,[37] Joshua convened the elders and chiefs of the Israelites and exhorted them to have no fellowship with the native population, because it could lead them to be unfaithful to God.[38] At a general assembly of the clans at Shechem, he took leave of the people, admonishing them to be loyal to their God, who had been so mightily manifested in the midst of them. As a witness of their promise to serve God, Joshua set up a great stone under an oak by the sanctuary of God. Soon afterward he died, at the age of 110, and was buried at Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.[39]

Historicity

The prevailing scholarly view is that Joshua is not a factual account of historical events. The apparent setting of Joshua is the 13th century BCE which was a time of widespread city-destruction, but with a few exceptions (Hazor, Lachish) the destroyed cities are not the ones the Bible associates with Joshua, and the ones it does associate with him show little or no sign of even being occupied at the time. Given its lack of historicity, Carolyn Pressler in her commentary for the Westminster Bible Companion series suggests that readers of Joshua should give priority to its theological message (“what passages teach about God”) and be aware of what these would have meant to audiences in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE. Richard Nelson explained that the needs of the centralised monarchy favoured a single story of origins, combining old traditions of an exodus from Egypt, belief in a national god as “divine warrior,” and explanations for ruined cities, social stratification and ethnic groups, and contemporary tribes.
In the 1930s Martin Noth made a sweeping criticism of the usefulness of the Book of Joshua for history. Noth was a student of Albrecht Alt, who emphasized form criticism and the importance of etiology. Alt and Noth posited a peaceful movement of the Israelites into various areas of Canaan, contra the Biblical account.
William Foxwell Albright questioned the “tenacity” of etiologies, which were key to Noth’s analysis of the campaigns in Joshua. Archaeological evidence in the 1930s showed that the city of Ai, an early target for conquest in the putative Joshua account, had existed and been destroyed, but in the 22nd century BCE. Some alternate sites for Ai have been proposed which would partially resolve the discrepancy in dates, but these sites have not been widely accepted. In 1951 Kathleen Kenyon showed that Jericho was from the Middle Bronze Age (c. 2100–1550 BCE), not the Late Bronze Age (c. 1550–1200 BCE). Kenyon argued that the early Israelite campaign could not be historically corroborated, but rather explained as an etiology of the location and a representation of the Israelite settlement.
In 1955, G. Ernest Wright discussed the correlation of archaeological data to the early Israelite campaigns, which he divided into three phases per the Book of Joshua. He pointed to two sets of archaeological findings that “seem to suggest that the biblical account is in general correct regarding the nature of the late thirteenth and twelfth-eleventh centuries in the country” (i.e., “a period of tremendous violence”). He gives particular weight to what were then recent digs at Hazor by Yigael Yadin.
The Book of Joshua holds little historical value. The archaeological evidence shows that Jericho and Ai were not occupied in the Near Eastern Late Bronze Age. The story of the conquest perhaps represents the nationalist propaganda of the 8th century BCE kings of Judah and their claims to the territory of the Kingdom of Israel, incorporated into an early form of Joshua written late in the reign of king Josiah (reigned 640–609 BCE). The book was probably revised and completed after the fall of Jerusalem to the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 586 BCE, and possibly after the return from the Babylonian exile in 538 BCE.

Views

In Judaism
In rabbinical literature
In rabbinic literature Joshua is regarded as a faithful, humble, deserving, wise man. Biblical verses illustrative of these qualities and of their reward are applied to him. “He that waits on his master shall be honored”[56] is construed as a reference to Joshua,[57] as is also the first part of the same verse, “Whoso keeps the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof”.[58] That “honor shall uphold the humble in spirit”[59] is proved by Joshua’s victory over Amalek.[60] Not the sons of Moses—as Moses himself had expected—but Joshua was appointed as Moses’ successor.[61] Moses was shown how Joshua reproved that Othniel.[62]
“God would speak to Moses face to face, like someone would speak to his friend. Then he would return to the camp. But his attendant, Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not leave the tent. Joshua never moved from the tent”.[29] Didn’t Joshua leave the tent to eat, sleep or attend to his needs? This praise shows that Joshua had complete faith in Moses, the Tzaddik. One who has this faith is cognizant of the tzaddik in everything he does; he remains steadfastly with the tzaddik whatever he does.[63]
According to rabbinic tradition, Joshua, when dividing the Land of Canaan among the twelve tribes of Israel, planted sea squill (Hebrew: חצוב) to mark off the butts and bounds of tribal properties.[c]
Moreover, Joshua, on dividing the land of Canaan amongst the tribes of Israel, made the tribes agree to ten conditions, the most important of which being the common use of the forests as pasture for cattle, and the common right of fishing in the Sea of Tiberias.[64] Natural springs were to be used for drinking and laundry by all tribes, although the tribe to which the water course fell had the first rights.[65] Prickly burnet (Sarcopoterium spinosum) and the camelthorn (Alhagi maurorum) could be freely collected as firewood by any member of any tribe, in any tribal territory.

In prayer
The Israelites led by Joshua crossing the Jordan River with the Ark, Old Sacristy, Milan Italy, 15th c.
Robert Hecquet, Israelites led by Joshua Crossing the Jordan River
According to Jewish religious tradition, upon making Aliyah by crossing the Jordan River to enter the Land of Israel, Joshua composed the Aleinu prayer thanking God. This idea was first cited in the Kol Bo of the late 14th Century.[66] Several medieval commentators noticed that Joshua’s shorter birth name, Hosea, appears in the first few verses of Aleinu in reverse acrostic: ע – עלינו, ש – שלא שם, ו – ואנחנו כורעים, ה – הוא אלוקינו. The Teshuvot HaGeonim, a Geonic responsum, discussed that Joshua composed the Aleinu because although the Israelites had made Aliyah to the Promised Land, they were surrounded by other peoples, and he wanted the Jews to draw a clear distinction between themselves, who knew and accepted the sovereignty of God, and those nations of the world which did not.[67] In the modern era, religious Jews still pray the Aliyah inspired Aleinu three times daily, including on the High Holidays. The Aleinu prayer begins:

It is our duty to praise the Master of all, to exalt the Creator of the Universe, who has not made us like the nations of the world and has not placed us like the families of the earth, who has not designed our destiny to be like theirs, nor our lot like that of all their multitude.[68]
Traditional “tomb of Joshua”
According to a Samaritan tradition, noted in 1877, the tombs of Joshua and Caleb were in Kifl Haris.[69]
According to Joshua 24:30, the tomb of Joshua is in Timnath-heres, and Jewish tradition also places the tombs of Caleb and Nun at that site, which is identified by Orthodox Jews with Kifl Haris. Thousands make the pilgrimage to the tombs on the annual commemoration of Joshua’s death, 26th of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar.[70][clarification needed]

In Christianity
Most modern Bibles translate Hebrews 4:8–10 to identify Jesus as a better Joshua, as Joshua led Israel into the rest of Canaan, but Jesus leads the people of God into “God’s rest”. Among the early Church Fathers, Joshua is considered a type of Jesus Christ.
The story of Joshua and the Canaanite kings is also alluded to in the 2 Meqabyan, a book considered canonical in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.[72]

In Islam
Possible Quranic reference
Joshua (Arabic: يُوشَعُ بْنُ نُونٍ, Yūšaʿ ibn Nūn, /juːʃaʕ ibn nuːn/) is not mentioned by name in the Quran, but his name appears in other Islamic literature. In the Quranic account of the conquest of Canaan, Joshua and Caleb are referenced, but not named, as two “Allah-fearing men”, on whom Allah “had bestowed His grace”.[73]

They said, “Moses, there is a fearsome people in this land. We will not go there until they leave. If they leave, then we will enter.” Yet the two men whom God had blessed among those who were afraid said, “Go in to them through the gate and when you go in you will overcome them. If you are true believers, put your trust in God.— Qur’an, sura 5 (Al-Ma’ida), ayah 22–23, Haleem translation[74]
Hadith, exegesis, traditions
Joshua in Arabic calligraphy
Joshua was regarded by some classical scholars as the prophetic successor to Moses (موسى).[d] Al-Tabari relates in his History of the Prophets and Kings that Joshua was one of the twelve spies and Muslim scholars believe that the two believing spies referred to in the Quran are Joshua and Caleb. Joshua was exceptional among the Israelites for being one of the few faithful followers of Allah.
Significant events from Joshua’s Muslim narratives include the crossing of the Jordan river and the conquest of Bait al-Maqdis.[75]
The traditional Muslim commentary al-Jalalayn says, “Ahmad [b. Hanbal] reported in his Musnad, the [following] hadīth, ‘The sun was never detained for any human, except for Joshua during those days in which he marched towards the Holy House [of Jerusalem]’.”[76]
Muslim literature includes traditions of Joshua not found in the Hebrew Bible. Joshua is credited with being present at Moses’s death and literature records that Moses’s garments were with Joshua at the time of his departure.[77] In Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, Joshua is mentioned as Yusha’ bin Nun and is the attendant to Moses during his meeting with Khidr.[78][79][80]

Traditional tombs
Joshua is believed by some Muslims to be buried on Joshua’s Hill in the Beykoz district of Istanbul.[81] Alternative traditional sites for his tomb are situated in Israel (the Shia shrine at Al-Nabi Yusha’), Jordan (An-Nabi Yusha’ bin Noon, a Sunni shrine near the city of Al-Salt[82][83]), Iran (Historical cemetery of Takht e Foolad in Esfahan[84]) and Iraq (the Nabi Yusha’ shrine of Baghdad[82]). A local tradition combining three versions of three different Yushas, including biblical Joshua, places the tomb inside a cave in the Tripoli Mountains, overlooking the coastal town of el-Minyieh near Tripoli, Lebanon.[85][86]

In art and literature
In the literary tradition of medieval Europe, Joshua is known as one of the Nine Worthies. In The Divine Comedy Joshua’s spirit appears to Dante in the Heaven of Mars, where he is grouped with the other “warriors of the faith.”
Baroque composer Georg Frideric Handel composed the oratorio Joshua in 1747. Composer Franz Waxman composed an oratorio Joshua in 1959. Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed Josue (H.404 and H.404 a), an oratorio for soloists, double chorus, double orchestra and continuo, in 1680.[citation needed]

In science
Legend has it that Mormon pioneers in the United States first referred to the yucca brevifolia agave plant as the Joshua tree because its branches reminded them of Joshua stretching his arms upward in supplication, guiding the travelers westward.[88]
Joshua is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of snake, Joshua’s blind snake (Trilepida joshuai), the holotype of which was collected at Jericó, Antioquia, Colombia.

Jewish holidays
Israeli poster celebrating Yom HaAliyah (Aliyah Day) from the Yosef Matisyahu Collection
The annual commemoration of Joshua’s yahrtzeit (the anniversary of his death) is marked on the 26th of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. Thousands make the pilgrimage to the Tomb of Joshua at Kifl Haris near Nablus, West Bank, on the preceding night.
Yom HaAliyah (Aliyah Day; Hebrew: יום העלייה) is an Israeli national holiday celebrated annually on the tenth of the Hebrew month of Nisan, as per the opening clause of the Yom HaAliyah Law, as a Zionist celebration of “Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel as the basis for the existence of the State of Israel”, and secondarily “to mark the date of entry into the Land of Israel”, i.e. to commemorate Joshua having led the Israelites across the Jordan River into the Land of Israel while carrying the Ark of the Covenant.

See also

References
Explanatory notes

^ (In Greek) “Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰησοῦς ὁ Δίκαιος”. Megas Synaxaristis.

^ Imperial Aramaic: יֵשׁוּעַ Yēšūaʿ; Syriac: ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ Yəšūʿ bar Nōn; Greek: Ἰησοῦς, Arabic: يُوشَعُ ٱبْنُ نُونٍ Yūšaʿ ibn Nūn; Latin: Iosue

^ a b Babylonian Talmud, Baba Bathra 56a; Beitza 25b, s.v. חצובא מקטע רגליהון דרשיעי‎. Quote: “ʻThe sea squill (Urginea maritima) amputates the leg of the wicked’. Explained by Talmudic exegete, Rashi, to mean a plant whose roots penetrate and go down deeply, without spreading-out to the sides at all, and they plant it between the boundaries of fields, with which Joshua [formerly] divided the country by designated borders for Israel.” ʻAmputates the leg of the wicked’, [meaning], on the Day of Judgment, in the sense that they (the wicked) steal, and covet, and reappropriate the property bounds [of others], without taking a lesson from it” (END QUOTE). Cf. Hai Gaon (1921), “Hai Gaon’s Commentary on Seder Taharot”, in Epstein, J.N. (ed.), The Geonic Commentary on Seder Taharot – Attributed to Rabbi Hai Gaon (in Hebrew), vol. 1, Berlin: Itzkowski, pp. 13–14, OCLC 13977130, s.v. יבלית‎ in Mishnah Keilim 3:6.

^ Joshua is mentioned as a prophet in Ibn Kathir’s Stories of the Prophets

Citations

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^ “Conjugation of לְהוֹשִׁיעַ”. Pealim.

^ Bible Numbers 13:16

^ Bible Numbers 13:1–16

^ Bible Joshua 24:29

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^ “Strong’s Hebrew Concordance – 3467. yasha”. Bible Hub.

^ “Klein Dictionary, ישׁע”. Sefaria.

^ “Strong’s Hebrew Concordance – 474. Elishua”. Bible Hub.

^ “Strong’s Hebrew Concordance – 410. êlî”. Bible Hub.

^ Bible Nehemiah 8:17

^ Numbers 13:16 LXX Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν Μωυσῆς τὸν Αὐσῆ υἱὸν Ναυῆ ‘Ἰησοῦν’ (and Moses named Hosea, son of Naue, Jesus)

^ “Zechariah”, Online Greek OT (Septuagint/LXX) UTF8 Bible, Bible database, 3:1–10, archived from the original on 23 July 2011, retrieved 8 January 2018

^ “Strong’s Hebrew Concordance – 3442. Yeshua”. Bible Hub.

^ Bible Exodus 17:8–16

^ Exodus 24:13

^ Bible [Exodus 32:17]

^ a b Exodus 33:11

^ Exodus 34:3

^ Bible Numbers 13:16–17

^ Bible Numbers 14:22–24

^ Bible Joshua 1:1–9

^ Bible Joshua 1:5

^ Bible Joshua 10:14

^ Bible Joshua 23:1–2

^ Bible Joshua 23:7–8, 23:12–13

^ Bible Joshua 24:29–30

^ Proverbs 27:18

^ Numbers Rabbah 12

^ Yalkut Shimoni, Joshua 2; Numbers Rabbah 12:21

^ Proverbs 29:23

^ Numbers Rabbah 13

^ Numbers Rabbah 12

^ Yalkut Shimoni, Numbers 776

^ Nachman of Breslov, Likutey Halakhot VII

^ Babylonian Talmud (Bava Kamma 80b—81a).

^ Maimonides, Mishneh Torah (Hil. Nizkei Mammon 5:3); Acha of Shabha, Sheiltoth, P. Ra’eh 147; Jerusalem Talmud, Baba Bathra 5:1. Even if the source of the natural spring were to originate in a distant tribal territory, and flowed along its course through another tribal territory, the people living in the territory where the water currently passes through have first-rights over the water.

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^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 218 – 219

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^ “Torah of Yeshuah: Book of Meqabyan I – III”. Archived from the original on 2019-09-23. Retrieved 2019-11-10.

^ Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’an: Text, Translation and Commentary, Note. 726 to verse 23: “Among those who returned after spying out the land were two men who had faith and courage. They were Joshua and Caleb. Joshua afterwards succeeded Moses in the leadership after 40 years. These two men pleaded for an immediate entry through the proper Gate, which I understand to mean, ‘after taking all due precautions and making all due preparations.’ Cf. 2:189 and n. 203. But of course, they said, they must put their trust in Allah for victory.”

^ M. A. S. Abdel Haleem, translator (2005). The Qur’an. Oxford University Press. p. 70.(

^ Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings, Vol. I: 414–429, 498–499, 503–516

^ “QuranX.com The most complete Quran / Hadith / Tafsir collection available!”. quranx.com. Archived from the original on 2018-08-15. Retrieved 2018-08-15.

^ Encyclopedia of Islam, Vol. XI, pg. 351, Yusha ibn Nun [Joshua, son of Nun]

^ Bukhari, Book 6, Volume 60, Hadiths 249, 250, 251: Prophetic Commentary on the Qur’an (Tafseer of the Prophet (pbuh))

^ Bukhari, Book 1, Volume 3, Hadith 124: Knowledge

^ Muslim, Book 30, Hadith 5864: The Book Pertaining to the Excellent Qualities of the Holy Prophet (may Peace be upon them) and His Companions (Kitab Al-Fada’il)

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^ a b Mazar Hazrat Yusha’ bin Noon, on the website of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada [1] Archived 2017-05-05 at the Wayback Machine

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