Although its author is Joshua (as [was] said in Prolegomenon II), yet the title seems rather sought from the matter itself. For those [things] are narrated in that book of which Joshua was the leader, author, and governor; and from him the book begins, and in him it ends. About whose parents, name, and other previously-done deeds, enough was set forth in the preceding book [Book I].
There survives among the Samaritans, even today, a book translated from Hebrew into the Arabic tongue, which is called IOSVE [Joshua] — because, namely, it begins from Moses’s departure and Joshua’s rule, although it does not end with him, but continues on beyond the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. Scaliger writes (bk. 7 On Emendation, p. 627) [that] he possesses this [book], copied in the Samaritan character.