Excerpt from Joshua: His Life and Times
The materials for the Life of Joshua are found in the Book which bears his name, in portions of the Pentateuch, and some scattered notices in the rest of Scripture and the Apocrypha. Josephus and Rabbinical traditions add little of any value, and the Samaritan Book of Joshua is a compilation of the thirteenth century altogether untrustworthy and useless for historical purposes. The "Records of the Past" afford a curious commentary on our Book in the account of the travels of an Egyptian officer through Palestine shortly before the Jewish invasion. A large number of the places visited by him are easily identified, and the notices of the towns and the state of the country are full of interest and instruction.
I have not thought it necessary, nor have I space, to burden my pages with controversial matter. The careful reader, however, will gather that I have endeavoured virtually to reply to theoretical fancies by the statement of assured facts. When the critics are agreed among themselves as to the age, date, and distribution of the several parts of what they call the Hexateuch, it will be time to see how far we have to modify old opinions. A comparative analysis of its treatment by four great German critics (not, however, including Dillmann"s last essay, 1886) may be seen in Ladd"s "Doctrine of Sacred Scripture," i. 517 ff. This is most instructive and perplexing.
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