The Idea of Holy War in Ancient Israel
The morally offensive idea of holy and total war, presented by the Deuteronomic authors as a religious duty, perplexes and disturbs us by its cruelty. We can identify in the biblical texts two different accounts of Israel's conquest of Canaan (one of genocidal total war and one of negotiation a...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1992
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1992, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 215-228 |
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