The Casual Catholic's view on Joshua.

I totally called it. This book in the way it is presented is very different from the books of Moses. I will say that the spiritual tales of God's wonders has not diminished, but the repetitive chapters have.

I made comment in Exodus about God's design of the Tabernacle. I failed to mention that Moses wrote out them following the instructions. I'm not going to bother writing all of it here, but it went something like this. "God said that there should be curtains, We made the curtains. God said the table should be made from this kind of wood and should be this tall, this long, and this wide. We made the table from this kind of wood, and we made it be this tall, this long and this wide." Every instruction was repeated as it was carried out in Moses's books.  There is much less of that in Joshua, and honestly it makes the Bible a bit easier on the eyes and mind.

I do want to make note that God seems to be getting a better grasp of his "powers." In the books of Moses, whenever God first exercised his powers, something grand and Earth shattering/creating occurred. I mean, flooding the entire earth, the complete destruction of a city, large plagues and pestilences on Egypt. The first two real quiet acts of God that I can remember are the burning bush, and the turning of rod into a Snake. In Joshua, God became more subtle with his techniques.

The biggest thing he did here was making the wall of Jericho fall, but the rest of the destruction of the city came from the Israelites.  Another thing he did was when he removed his "battle blessing" because someone had taken some silver and gold idols of Jericho. There was also the rain of stones from the Heavens, but it was more focused on a retreating army than it was on an entire area.

I know what some naysayers will say about how , Oh god only targeted the Egyptians with plagues,
The Israelites were easily spared, so God could control his powers already. My counter to that is that the land of Egypt was a large place, so it was still a massive scale endeavor. I also point to the last plague. The plague of the first borns. The angel of death indiscriminately killed the first born of each house, unless the house was marked with blood. So it stands to reason that any Israelite that had missed the warning also had their first born killed. Here the Israelites had to protect themselves against the wrath of god, whose wrath was not even targeted at them.

The events in Joshua are more precise, and less massive in scale, but no less wonders of our Lord God. I shall let everyone who reads my works, be the Judge of it. I however need to to on to Judges.