 They see the book as an ideological retrojection from a later period — either as early as the reign of Josiah or as late as the Hasmonean period.”
 ”It behooves us to ask, in spite of the fact that the overwhelming consensus of modern scholarship is that Joshua is a pious fiction composed by the deuteronomistic school, how does and how has the Jewish community dealt with these foundational narratives, saturated as they are with acts of violence against others?