i :5.) Heb. xi:31: 'By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace ;' and James ii :25 : 'Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?' (Compare Josh. ii and vi :22-25.) Acts vii :45: 'Which (the tabernacle) also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the pos session of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers.' (Compare Josh.
iii :14.) Heb. xi:3o: 'By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.' (Compare Josh. vi :17-23.) Heb. iv:8: 'For if Jesus (Joshua) had given them rest, then would he not afterwards have spoken of another day.' The quotation from the book of Jasher (Josh. x:13) is said to be contradicted by 2 Sam. i :18, where it appears that this book was written in the days of David. But this is by no means clear from the passage referred to; and even if it were so, it would seem that the book of Jasher was an anthologia, augmented in the days of David.
Others have based upon this quotation the infer ence that the book of Joshua was written after the times of David. De Wette, in his Einleitung (Berlin, 1833, p. 219), asserts that the book of Joshua was written after the Babylonian cap tivity.
The mention of the book of Jasher has given rise to some spurious compilations under that name, as well in Hebrew as in English. (See the article JASHER, BOOK OF.) (11) Literature. See, besides the Introduc tions of Eichhorn, De Wette, and Havernick; George Bush, Notes on Joshua and Judges (New York, 1838) ; Wordsworth, Holy Bible with notes, pt. i :1-74 (Lond., 1865) ; Ewald, Gesch. des Volkes Israel, Eng. transl. by Martineau (Lond., 1868) ; Palfrey, Lectures on the Jewish Scrip tures, ii. 134-183; Davidson, Introd. to the Old Testament, i :409-448; Rawlinson, Hist. Evidences Lect. ; Keil, Introd. to Old Testament.