The Walls of Jericho Fall Down — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Joshua — The entry narrative — Israel crosses the Jordan, takes the Land through three conquest campaigns, and renews covenant at Shechem. The hinge between Torah's promises and the historical record of those promises unfolding.
Canon
Old Testament
Author
Joshua himself at least in part (24:26 — ‘Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God’); later editorial framing traditional
Date
Events c. 1400 BC (early) or 1230 BC (late); compilation across the early-monarchy period
“And Kinah,.... Of this city we read of nowhere else:
and Dimonah; the second city is thought to be the same with Dibon, Neh 11:25; and Jerom (b) observes, that a place elsewhere was indifferently called in his time Dibon and Dimon;
and Adadah; the last of these cities is nowhere met with.
(b) Comment. in Esaiam, c. 15. 9.