Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
Longacre attributed this chapter, indeed the first half of Joshua, to, "JE, RD, and P;"[4] and Morton thought this chapter came from "D."[5]  Our own opinion is that it came from JOSHUA!  We cannot believe that P, or D, or J, or E, or R, or any of the rest of those imaginary writers were eye-witnesses or participants in the events here outlined.  More recent scholarship is beginning to see the impossibility of receiving such allegations regarding the source of Biblical books.  Boling, for example, writes: "It must be admitted, however, that there is no direct evidence to show that the label `P' (or any other label, J.B.C.) must be placed on this chapter."[6]  The death of all allegations of various sources for Biblical books is in three simple words: NO DIRECT EVIDENCE!  Furthermore, we declare unequivocally that "there are no prior documents that were copied to make up the holy Bible."  If Biblical enemies want to get their "prior sources" accepted by believers, let them produce the documents!  Joshua is simply not a piecemeal kind of book.  As Lilley put it, "The overall effect (of merely reading it) emphasizes the unity of the book."[7]