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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Book of Joshua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Modern critical scholars argue that Joshua was probably written in the post-exilic age, either from the JEDP sources that they believe were responsible for the Pentateuch, or by one of the prophets of the eighth century BCE.
Joshua in front of Jericho receives the visit of a "captain of the host of the Lord" in the guise of a man, who declares that the soil on which Joshua is standing is holy ground.
Joshua becomes master of the whole land?the hill-country, the southland, the lowland, and the slopes?leaving not one king alive, and banning all men from Kadesh-barnea unto Gaza, and all the district of Goshen unto Gibeon.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Book_of_Joshua   (2913 words)

  
 Prison - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Within half a dozen years no fewer than fifty-four new prisons were built on the Pentonville plan, which now began to serve generally as a " model " for imitation, not in England alone, but all over the world.
Sir Joshua Jebb, who presided over its erection, may fairly claim indeed to be the author and originator of modern prison architecture.
The penal discipline of to-day, much modified and varied it is true, may be largely traced to it.
www.1911ency.org /P/PR/PRISON.htm   (9874 words)

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