Was Nun a man or woman?

Answer 1

A:In ancient times, before the use of surnames, a man was commonly referred to by his own name, then "son of [his father's name]". Thus we could expect that Nun, the father of "Joshua son of Nun" was a man.

A complication of this is that scholars say that there never was a military conquest of Canaan as described in The Bible and therefore no military leader called Joshua; moreover there is substantial evidence in the Bible itself that Joshua was worshipped by the Hebrews of archaic times as their sun god, so we could look for a god as Joshua's father. The Egyptian primordal god, and ancestor of all the gods, was called Nun. Thus it is possible that the god Nun entered archaic Hebrew belief from Egypt, and that he was neither man nor woman, but a god.