Yehoshua bin Nun
1355 BCE–1245 BCE · Biblical · Eretz Yisrael (travels)
Joshua son of Nun was Moses' faithful attendant and his divinely appointed successor, who led the Israelites across the Jordan into the Promised Land. He directed the conquest and the division of the land among the tribes — the fall of Jericho, the sun standing still at Gibeon — and renewed the covenant at Shechem before his death. As the first to receive the tradition directly from Moses (Pirkei Avot 1:1), he is a crucial link in the chain of Torah transmission.
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Eretz Yisrael (travels)Land of Israel
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Eretz Yisrael (travels) in this era
The land that became home to the Hebrew people across more than a millennium of upheaval was ruled successively by Egyptian overlords, Canaanite city-states, the judges who defended tribal lands, then the unified monarchy of David and Solomon, before fragmenting into northern and southern kingdoms until conquest by Assyria and Babylon scattered the population into exile. The Jewish community was never one thing during this vast arc: it was nomadic settlers claiming territory, tribal confederations fighting for survival, a nation-state centered on Jerusalem's Temple with priests and prophets wielding spiritual authority, then exiles by the rivers of Babylon mourning the destroyed sanctuary, and finally returnees under Persian permission rebuilding walls and restoring Temple worship around Ezra and Nehemiah. The intellectual and spiritual life was foundational—this era birthed the Torah itself, the Psalms, prophetic vision, and the consciousness of covenant that would define Judaism forever. The Jordan River marked the threshold of entry; the Temple in Jerusalem, rebuilt after exile, became the magnetic center of identity and longing; and the scroll—whether law or prophecy—became portable home for a people learning to survive diaspora and remember return.
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