Founding myth of the Israelites. It tells of their departure from Egypt, the revelations at biblical Mount Sinai, and their wanderings in the wilderness up to the borders of Canaan. Wikipedia
Important figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis. Sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, and rose to become vizier, the second most powerful man in Egypt next to Pharaoh, where his presence and office caused Israel to leave Canaan and settle in Egypt. Wikipedia
Fourth book of the Hebrew Bible, and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. Possibly due to a Priestly redaction of a Yahwistic source made some time in the early Persian period (5th century BCE). Wikipedia
Sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile. It tells of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan, the destruction of their enemies, and the division of the land among the Twelve Tribes, framed by two set-piece speeches, the first by God commanding the conquest of the land, and, at the end, the second by Joshua warning of the need for faithful observance of the Law (torah) revealed to Moses. Wikipedia
44th weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the Book of Deuteronomy. It constitutes. Wikipedia
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- Baghdad not only contained the tombs of Muslim saints and martyrs, but also the tomb of the Hebrew prophet Joshua, whose corpse had been brought to Iraq during the first migration of the Jews out of the Levant.Abbasid Caliphate-Wikipedia
- Forty years after the Exodus, following the death of the generation of Moses, a new generation, led by Joshua, enters Canaan and takes possession of the land in accordance with the promise made to Abraham by Yahweh.Israelites-Wikipedia
- According to Robertson, Jackson "thought of the war as a religious crusade", and "viewed himself as an Old Testament warrior—like David or Joshua—who went into battle to slay the Philistines".Stonewall Jackson-Wikipedia
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