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The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites is unavailable, but you can change that!

Holy warfare is the festering wound on the conscience of Bible-believing Christians. Of all the problems the Old Testament poses for our modern age, this is the one we want to avoid in mixed company. But do the so-called holy war texts of the Old Testament portray a divinely inspired genocide? Did Israel slaughter Canaanites at God’s command? Were they enforcing divine retribution on an unholy...

provide a means to preserve Jacob’s bloodline (Gen 45:7, “to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance”), but that in turn was a means to preserve the covenant with Abraham, which was made in service of a larger purpose that we can in no way reproduce. (For a further discussion of the covenant, see proposition eight.) In this approach to moral theology, the same is true of the entire Bible. The Bible is a record of God’s actions that we are supposed to understand,
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