Author:
Joshua (
24:26).
Time of Writing:
1452—1426 B.C. (see below).
Place of the Record:
The plains of Moab (cf.
Deut. 34:8-9) and Shechem in Canaan (
24:1,
25-26).
Time Period Covered:
About twenty-seven years, 1452—1426 B.C., from the first month of the forty-first year after the exodus (
4:19)
to the death of Joshua (
24:29).