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At the end of the book bearing his name, Joshua dies and is buried: \u201cJoshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of a hundred and ten. And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnat Serah, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash\u201d (Joshua 24:29-30).<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Midrash (Genesis Rabbah 39:11), coins struck in Joshua\u2019s memory bore the figure of a bullock on one side and the figure of a wild ass on the other side, apparently because of the link between Joshua\u2019s burial and the final disposition of the bones of Joseph in Shechem (see Joshua 24:29-32, Deuteronomy 33:16-17).<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Joshua 24:31), those who buried Joshua put into his grave with him the flint knives that he used to circumcise the Israelites at Gilgal (see Joshua 5:2-9), \u201cand they are there to this very day\u201d. According to the Zohar (I, 53a) Joshua \u201cdied only through the incitement of the Serpent\u201d (see Genesis, Chapter 3). Indeed, Joshua did not participate in the Sin of the Golden Calf and therefore was one of the few mortals who \u201cdied free of sin\u201d. Rashi (to Joshua 24:30) preserves an otherwise unknown Midrashic tradition that Joshua\u2019s burial place called here Timnat Serah (Joshua 24:30), but elsewhere Timnat Heres (see Judges 8:13, 14:18), because \u201cHeres\u201d means sun (see Job 9:7). And so, at Timnat Heres a figure of the sun was set up over Joshua\u2019s grave to commemorate his commanding the sun to stand still in the sky (see Joshua 10:12-13). And those passing by would say: Woe to this one who performed such a great feat and still died\u201d. Rashi goes on to record that Joshua was buried near Mount Gaash (\u201ceruption\u201d) because the mountain erupted to kill those who attended Joshua\u2019s funeral because they did not eulogize him sufficiently.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, thousands visited Joshua\u2019s grave in the Palestinian village of Kifl Haris, near the West Bank city of Ariel. A small stone-and-stucco mausoleum covered by a dome marks this gravesite. For the last decade Jewish worshipers have visited the tombs of Joshua and Caleb on the 26<\/span>th<\/span> of the Hebrew month of Nissan, the annual commemoration of Joshua\u2019s death, which this year fell on Wednesday, May 1.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":54838,"id":54838,"title":"jo24-mapEPHRAIM","filename":"jo24-mapEPHRAIM.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo24-mapEPHRAIM.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-death-and-burial-of-joshua\/jo24-mapephraim\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jo24-mapephraim","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":54837,"date":"2019-05-04 19:48:57","modified":"2019-05-04 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