Moses's successor, victor of the Battle of Jericho

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That Joshua had gained his wisdom from the fifth Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad, who might himself have been Judas or Christ if only he had foreseen a painful future as clearly as he recalled a blissful past?

Confrontation is not a large part of his character and Abraham, unlike his own son Joshua, both fears and dislikes his father.

Bears would have let her come and sit with him, but he was gone with Joshua Hench to find her father on the Albany road and bring him home.

Below us was the Valley of Ajalon, where Joshua defeated the kings of the Amorites and the moon was stayed, a rich fertile plain stretching to the hills which circled it on three sides.

Joshua of Nazereth, Mohammed, even Vishnu in his ninth avatara as the Buddha.

The contemporaries of Moses and Joshua had beheld with careless indifference the most amazing miracles.

But the most important of his friendships developed between him and such men of genius as Boswell, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Edmund Burke.

As far as Joshua was concerned, a cow was a cow as long as the butterfat content in its milk was up to the dairy standards.

Resisting the urge to run his own muscles through the proper motions, Justin lay quietly on his couch as Joshua followed Cerenkov and the others up the three outside steps and into the building.

Had they decided to split up the contact team, with Cerenkov and Rynstadt stashed away down south while York and Joshua were hidden in Sollas?

Joshua seemed to have at least a vague idea of what he was doing, and Deadeye had none at all, he followed the human across the street.

Joshua secured for them was smaller than the one Deadeye had lived in at the castle, but private, holding just two narrow beds and a table, and it had a locking door.

Joshua vaulted out of the sink and donned his habit without bothering to dry himself or put on his underwear.

Now, as he pondered the puzzle of the multiple earths and the falling seed, Joshua found that long-ago jigsaw cobble pricking his memory.

Joshua fired a last coded message at the geostationary communications satellites, then the dish antenna and various sensor clusters started to sink down into their jump recesses.