Part 1. Interpretation -- Part 2. The Canaanites are not depicted as guilty of sin -- Part 3. The Canaanites are not depicted as guilty of breaking God's law -- Part 4. The language and imagery of the conquest account has literary and theological significance -- Part 5. What God and the Israelites are doing is often misunderstood because the Hebrew word ḥerem is commonly mistranslated -- Part 6. How to apply this understanding
Summary
Perhaps no biblical episode is more troubling than the conquest of Canaan. But do the so-called holy war texts of the Old Testament portray a divinely inspired genocide? John Walton and J. Harvey Walton take us on an archaeological dig, reframing our questions and excavating the layers of translation and interpretation that cloud our perception of these difficult texts
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