Immediately following the Pentateuch, Joshua tells the story of Moses’ successor—Joshua—as he leads the people of Israel out of the wilderness and into the promised land. The book follows the military campaigns of God’s people as they take possession of the land from the Canaanites and then details the allocation of the land to each tribe, finally fulfilling—after hundreds of years—God’s promise to Abraham. The major themes of the book are holy war—including the questions around the morality of the conquest of Canaan—the land as inheritance, the covenant between God and Israel, and finally, the holy and redeeming attributes of God.
