Joshua’s leadership into the Promised Land epitomized in Luke 23:42

The criminal in Luke 23:42 is the only person in the whole NT who addresses Jesus by the proper name “Jesus” alone, without any further specification. This literary hapax in Luke’s gospel has been noticed by the exegetes, but a satisfactory explanation has not yet been given. Based on the fact of the name Ἰησοῦς and on the positive typology of Joshua’s leadership of his people into the Promised Land, the present essay aims to show that by this hapax, Luke had the intention of presenting a dying criminal as a voice expressing a high typology of Jesus’ eisodos into his kingdom.