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Judaism: The First Phase: The Place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Origins of Judaism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Most studies of how early Judaism related to the non-Jewish world and how others perceived it start no earlier than the Hellenistic period. Joseph Blenkinsopp argues that we must go further back, to the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and its temple and the liquidation of the political and religious infrastructure—monarchy, priesthood, scribalism, prophecy—which had sustained the Judean state...

first instance concerns what the immigrants were to do after arriving in the land: When Yahweh your God brings you to the land which you are about to enter to take possession of it, driving out many nations before you—Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations greater and more powerful than you—and when Yahweh your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must utterly destroy them. You must make no covenant with them and show them
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