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Including the Stranger: Foreigners in the Former Prophets is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Old Testament, particularly the Former Prophets, has frequently been regarded as having a negative attitude towards foreigners. This has meant that these texts are often employed by those opposed to the Christian faith to attack the Bible; and such views can be echoed by Christians. While the story of David and Goliath is cherished, other episodes are seen to involve ‘ethnic cleansing’ or...

A key theme running through Joshua was the fact that the people of God could not be reduced to something defined by ethnicity. Rather, God’s people were those who either committed themselves to Yahweh, or at least chose not to oppose what Yahweh was doing. There is no doubt that Joshua regards the first option as the better choice, but it still allows for the other. But having established that Israel were primarily
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