not have been finally fixed until, as Dillmann held, as late as about
200 B.C.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--See the commentaries of Dillmann, Steuernagel Holzinger
(German), or the concise edition by H. W. Robinson in the _Century
Bible_; also articles on "Joshua" by G. A. Smith, Hastings's _D. B._,
and G. F. Moore, _Ency. Bib._; Kittel in _Hist. of the Hebrews_, i.
262 sqq.; W. H. Bennett, in Haupt's _Sacred Books of the Old
Testament_; Carpenter and Harford-Battersby, _Comp. of Hexateuch_, ch.
xvii; S. R. Driver, _Lit. of the O. T._ (8th ed., 1909). These give
further bibliographical information, for which see also the articles
on the books of the Pentateuch. (S. A. C.)
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Heb. _Jehoshua_; later _Jeshua_; Gr. [Greek: Iêsous], whence
"Jesus" in the A.V. of Heb. iv. 8; another form of the name is Hoshea
(Num. xiii. 8, 16). The name may mean "Yah(weh) is wealth, _or_ is
(our) war-cry, _or_ saves." The only extra-biblical notice of Joshua
is the inscription of more than doubtful genuineness given by
Procopius (_Vand._ ii. 20), and mentioned also by Moses of Chorene
(_Hist. Arm._ i. 18). It is said to have stood at Tingis in
Mauretania, and to have borne that those who erected it had fled
before [Greek: Iêsous ho lêstês]. For the medieval Samaritan Book of
Joshua, see T. Juynboll, _Chronicum Samaritanum_ (1846); J. A.
Montgomery, _The Samaritans_ (1907), pp. 301 sqq.
[2] Traces of composite material may be recognized--(a) where, in
place of boundaries, P has given lists of cities which appear to be
taken from other sources (cf. the instructions in xviii. 9), and (b)
in the double headings (see Addis, _The Hexateuch_, i. 230, note 1,
and the commentaries).
[3] The close relation between what may be called the Deuteronomic
history (Joshua-Kings) and its introduction (the legal book of
Deuteronomy) independently show the difficulty of supporting the
traditional date ascribed to the latter.
[4] G. F. Moore (_Ency. Bib._, col. 2608, note 2) draws attention to
the instructive parallel furnished by the Greek legends of the Dorian
invasion of the Peloponnesus (the "return" of the Heracleidae, the
partition of the land by lot, &c.).
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