Joshua 4:19-24

"And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho. And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal. And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over the Jordan on dry land. For Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as Jehovah your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over; that all the people of the earth may know the hand of Jehovah, that it is mighty; that ye may fear Jehovah your God forever."

Notice the first person plural used by the writer in Joshua 4:23b, indicating that the author of Joshua was an eye-witness of the Red Sea crossing, powerful evidence indeed that Joshua himself is the author. Who else, in all that ancient world, 40 years after the event, could have said anything like this?

We can hardly believe that any Christian commentator would have written anything like this: "The reference to `the first month' here means that Joshua 4:19 must be dated as late as 605 B.C."[5] No Babylonian influence whatever is in this verse! "The first month" here is the first month of the Jewish religious year, as indicated in Exodus 12:2, to which this is a clear reference. "Here is also a SUBSTANTIATION of the Pentateuchal testimony that a whole generation had expired since the observance of the original Passover."[6] Such passages as these confirm absolutely the vital and intimate link between the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua.