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War in the Hebrew Bible
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A Study in the Ethics of Violence

by Susan Niditch (Author) (edit contributors)

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Texts about war pervade the Hebrew Bible, raising challenging questions in religious and political ethics. The war passages that readers find most disquieting are those in which God demands the total annihilation of the enemy without regard to gender, age, or military status. The ideology of... read more

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The most chilling biblical war texts refer to herem, the ban, under which all human beings among the defeated are "devoted to destruction."

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  1. Susan Niditch (Author)

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