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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...

The book of Job is a thought experiment designed to examine the retribution principle and its limitations.2 The opening scene is set in heaven, where the adversarial character (haśśāṭān) proposes that God’s policies of blessing the righteous are misguided. After all, if righteousness invariably brings blessing, who can say whether someone is truly righteous or is selfishly pursuing personal gain? The adversary argues that, if God withdraws Job’s blessings, Job will reveal that his motives have always
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