A folkloric tradition attributes this prayer to the biblical Joshua at the time of his conquest of Jericho. This might have been inspired by the fact that the first letters of the first four verses spell, in reverse, "Hoshea", which was the childhood name of Joshua (Numbers 13:16). Another attribution is to the Men of the Great Assembly, during the Second Temple period. An early—that is, pre-Christian—origin of the prayer is evidenced by its explicit mention of bowing and kneeling—practices associated with the Temple, and its non-mention of exile or a desire to restore Israel or the Temple. On the other hand, it has been argued that the phrase: "lirot meherah be-tiferet uzechah" (to speedily see your "tiferet" and "oz") is in fact a request for the speedy rebuilding of the Temple. The allusion is based on Psalms 78:61 and 96:6. If so, at least the second paragraph of "Aleinu" was written after the destruction in 70 CE (perhaps around the time of Abba Arikha).