Please read the entire Wikipedia article on the book of Joshua. Notice that the author/s are unknown, even though it is traditionally attributed to Joshua himself. The date of writing is unknown and most likely occurred hundreds of years after the supposed events. The historical evidence for the events is slim to none.
The Wikipedia article on Joshua the man gives more information about the earliest historical evidences of the Israelites as a people group, which are dated to almost a hundred years after the beginning of the book of Joshua. This article also mentions the christian teaching, based on Hebrews 4:8-10 that Jesus led people to a better rest than Joshua. In fact, the names Jesus and Joshua are one and the same, interchangeable. The King James version actually translated the name word to Jesus instead of Joshua in the Hebrews passage. Other versions say Joshua. In reality it is the same name that is translated Jesus in much of the New Testament. This and other reasons has led many bible scholars throughout the ages to say that Joshua is a "type" of Jesus.
Read the article on typology for a full explanation of this doctrine as a theory of history and the way events in the Old Testament are related to those in the New Testament, especially where Jesus is concerned. Basically, types are supposedly a kind of God- created deliberate foreshadowing of future events by past events.
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