Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
"Now it came to pass  ..." "The form of the Hebrew word here rendered `now' shows that Joshua is intended to be a CONTINUATION of the Book of Deuteronomy";[1] but, "Joshua is distinct from the Pentateuch.  There is no ancient Jewish tradition or manuscript evidence that the book ever formed a unit with the five books of the Law,"[2] as the critics have alleged regarding their speculative "Hexateuch." Unger's comment on the hypothetical Hexateuch is as follows: