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Joshua began as a collaboration between G. Ernest Wright, the distinguished biblical scholar and archaeologist, and his student, Robert G. Boling. After Wright’s death, Professor Boling, who also did the translation and commentary for Judges, finished the task alone. Boling’s extensive treatment includes not only an entire new translation of Joshua and a complete commentary on the text, but also...

The Book of Joshua in the Jewish canon is the first book of the Former Prophets, as the “prophetic” histories, Joshua, Judges, 1–2 Samuel and 1–2 Kings, are called. The designation indicates a rabbinic concern with the special character of these “histories” which put them together in a special group immediately following the Torah. In that sense the early rabbinic position and that of modern scholars have a central concern in common, as shortly will be indicated. As for the listing of these books
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