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Christians cannot ignore the intersection of religion and violence, whether contemporary or ancient. In our own Scriptures, war texts that appear to approve of genocidal killings and war rape—forcibly taking female captives for wives—raise hard questions about biblical ethics and the character of God. Have we missed something in our traditional readings? In Bloody, Brutal, and Barbaric? William...

This book explores the ethics of two war actions within the biblical accounts: genocide and war rape.1 Why these two? In short, they are the most ethically troubling components of holy war that readers encounter in the Bible. Genocide and war rape raise hard questions about the ethics of Scripture and about the character of the Yahweh God of the Old Testament. Today’s religion-and-violence theorists and new-atheism proponents make their ethical assessment
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