TITLE
The Hebrew title is Yehoshua, “Eternal is Saviour,” or “Salvation.” The LXX title is “Yesus,” or “Jesus.” Joshua was first called Oshea or Hoshea (Numbers 13:16) which means “salvation.”

AUTHOR
Joshua (24:26). Jewish tradition states that Joshua wrote the book (Talmud, Baba Bartra 14b).

DATE
@ 1445-1420 BC. The book spans about twenty-five years from the death of Moses to the death of Joshua (24:29).

THEME

NOTE:
The book of Numbers shows Israel did not have faith to gain the promised land at first. Now, in the book of Joshua, God commands this second generation to have courage, a physical type of faith, to go in and take the land and possess it. Israel met the enemy “face-to-face,” “weapon-to-weapon,” trusting God to give the victory, though the odds looked overwhelmingly against them.