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== Dating ==
== Dating ==
Evidence for the dating of the authorship of the Book of Joshua must consist of analysis regarding when the events it describes (specifically, the destruction of the cities of Jericho, Ai and Hazor) took place, which will be examined later in this article, as well as other internal clues. Joshua 5:1 uses the phrase "kings of the Canaanites", and this phrase is only duplicated in an extra-biblical source in the Amarna Letters,(EA 8, 109)<ref>Waterhouse, S. Douglas. "Who are the Habiru of the Amarna Letters?." Journal of the Adventist Theological Society 12.1 (2001), p. 35</ref> which were written between 1375-1350 BC<ref>Albright, William Foxwell. Amarna Letters from Palestine, Syria, the Philistines and Phoenicia. CUP Archive, 2003, p. 5</ref> This may suggest that the usage of this similar term between these two texts suggest they were both written near the same time as each other, in the early 14th century BC.
Evidence for the dating of the authorship of the Book of Joshua must consist of analysis regarding when the events it describes took place (which will be examined later on), as well as other internal clues. An internal clue that could solve the dating of the Book of Joshua is in Joshua 5:1, which uses the phrase "kings of the Canaanites". This phrase is only duplicated in an extra-biblical source in the corpus of the Amarna Tablets (specifically EA 8, 109),<ref>Waterhouse, S. Douglas. "Who are the Habiru of the Amarna Letters?." Journal of the Adventist Theological Society 12.1 (2001), p. 35</ref> and the dating of the Amarna Letters goes to ca. 1375-1350 BC.<ref>Albright, William Foxwell. Amarna Letters from Palestine, Syria, the Philistines and Phoenicia. CUP Archive, 2003, p. 5</ref> This may suggest that the usage of the similar phrase "kings of the Canaanites" in the Book of Joshua and the Amarna Tablets corpus could indicate that they were written in the same time period, precisely the early to mid-14th century BC.
== Joshua's Conquest ==
== Joshua's Conquest ==