them, occurred after Joshua's death.
Among these are the conquest of Hebron (chap. 15:16-19, compared with
Judges 1:12-15), and especially the excursion of the Danites (chap.
19:47), which must be regarded as identical with that described in the
eighteenth chapter of the book of Judges. Unless we assume that this
notice of the Danites is an addition made by a later hand, we must
suppose that the book was written by some unknown prophetical man after
Joshua's death. He may well have been one of the elders who overlived
Joshua, since at the time of his writing Rahab was yet living among the
Israelites. Chap. 6:25.

The eighteenth chapter of the book of Judges, which records the
invasion of the Danites, is evidently an _appendix_, introduced
by the words: "In those days there was no king in Israel;" and
that this invasion took place not long after the settlement of
the people in Canaan, is manifest from the object proposed by
it. Judges 18:1. At the time of the conquest, Rahab was a young
woman, and may well have survived that event forty years or
more. The only apparent indication of a still later composition
of the book is that found in the reference to the book of
_Jasher_, chap. 10:13. From 2 Sam. 1:18, we learn (according to
the most approved interpretation of the passage) that David's
elegy on the death of Saul and Jonathan was written in the book
of Jasher. But we are not warranted in affirming that this title
was applied to a book of definitely determined contents. It may
have been a collection of national songs, enlarged from age to
age.

Though Joshua does not appear to have been the author of the
book in its present form, we may well suppose that the writer
employed, in part at least, materials that came from Joshua's
pen. When the land was divided by lot among the several tribes,
the boundaries of each inheritance, with the cities pertaining
to it, must have been carefully described in writing by Joshua
himself, or by persons acting under his direction. It is
probable that these descriptions were copied by the author of
the book of Joshua; and this is sufficient to account for any
diversity of diction that may exist in this part of the book as
compared with the purely historic parts. Nothing in the style
and diction of this book, or in that of the two following books
of Judges and Ruth, indica