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The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: Somet...

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This is an excerpt from Islamic religious-historical literature, drawing on Arabic chronicle sources (notably Al-Masudi's *Muruj al-Dhahab*) and Quranic exegesis, narrating the career of Joshua ben Nun as Moses' successor in the tradition of Islamic *qisas al-anbiya* (Stories of the Prophets). The text recounts Joshua's military conquest of Canaan — particularly the taking of Jericho — his wars against the indigenous giants, and the Israelites' persistent disobedience when commanded to enter the city with humility and repentance. A notably unusual claim is the inclusion of Zipporah (Moses' wife) as a military opponent of Joshua, leading a rebel force of 100,000, being captured, and lamenting her betrayal of Moses' covenant — a detail absent from biblical or mainstream Jewish tradition and distinctive to certain Islamic narrative strands. The text also provides geographical commentary identifying the "stinking lake" with the Dead Sea and connecting it to the Jordan River via Lake Tiberias. Its overarching theological argument, reinforced with direct Quranic citations (Al-Baqarah 2:58–59, Maryam 19:51–52, Al-Saffat 37:114–115), is that God showed extraordinary patience and favor toward the Israelites despite their chronic rebellion, and that the nations displaced before them were punished not for Israel's righteousness but for their own greater wickedness.

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