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The Destruction of the Canaanites: God, Genocide, and Biblical Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

How can a good God command genocide? In this short, accessible offering, Charlie Trimm provides the resources needed to make sense of one of the Bible’s most difficult ethical problems—the Israelite destruction of the Canaanites as told in the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, and Judges. Trimm begins with a survey of important background issues, including the nature of warfare in the ancient Near...

Instead, according to Stark, “They must be retained as scripture, precisely as condemned texts. Their status as condemned is exactly their scriptural value. That they are condemned is what they reveal to us about God.”40 That is, their rejection shows us that this is precisely how God does not act. The reevaluation of the Old Testament provides obvious ethical benefits by disassociating God from biblical violence. However, it comes at the cost of being able to trust the Old Testament as a reliable
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