At lunch on Simchat Torah, my wife and I were asking our kids questions about the day, and the haftara came up - the very beginning of ספר יהשוע. She asked why we choose this haftara, and we discovered that we both had always assumed different reasons for it. I thought that it was because after completing the Torah and reading at the end of V'zot Habracha about the death of Moshe Rabbeinu and the subsequent leadership of Yehoshua, we continue the story at the beginning of Nevi'im. My wife thought that it was to parallel the reading of the beginning of the Torah with Bereishit.
After שבת last night, she found this article by Rabbi Meir Soloveichik discussing the question. Great minds...
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