Joshua (Yehoshua)

According to the Hebrew Bible and its summaries, he was born in Egypt, son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim, originally named Hoshea; Moses renamed him Yehoshua. After Moses' death God appoints Joshua to lead the Israelites into Canaan. Scholarly summaries in the provided sources note that the Book of Joshua is commonly treated as a theological and nationalist narrative compiled and revised centuries after the events it describes, with archaeological evidence not straightforwardly corroborating the conquest account.

The supplied sources provide no iconographic or supernatural description of Joshua as an apparition. Biblical narrative identifies him as 'Joshua son of Nun,' an Ephraimite, a military leader and attendant of Moses, later resident of Timnath-heres/Timnath-serah. Physical details (height, visage, special garments beyond normative leader descriptions) are not given in the provided material.

In the biblical narrative Joshua functions as Moses' attendant and successor, a military commander who organizes and leads campaigns in Canaan, and one of the two spies (with Caleb) who give a favourable report of the land. Narrative events attributed to divine action in connection with his leadership include the parting of the Jordan River at Israel's crossing and the account of the sun and moon standing still at his request; the sources frame these as God acting on behalf of Israel in conjunction with Joshua's leadership. Modern bearers of the name in the supplied materials are ordinary professionals (filmmaker moderator, politician, musicians, academics, fictional characters) with no supernatural claims.