Questions Youve Asked about the Old Testament JOSHUA AND GENOCIDE

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Questions Youve Asked about the Old
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How do you feel about
The problem of the ban

• The 1939 German invasion of Poland in search of
  living space
• The 199899 Serbian program of ethnic cleansing
  (murder and expulsion) of Kosovar Albanians
• The early American program of ethnic cleansing
  of Indians in search of elbow room
• The events of Sept. 11, 2001 attempts to punish
  American pride in the name of God
• The battle of Jericho in Joshua 6

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Proposed solutions

• Deny historicity
• ? Cautions against false analogies
• ? Pick and choose hermeneutic
• Deny the moral problem
• ? Admirable allegiance to God
• ? Moral relativism
• ? Not entirely biblical

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OT theology of the ban

• Reasons for the ban
• Punishment for sin
• Prevention of sin
• Alternatives to the ban
• Conversion
• Near-meaningless in polytheistic context
• Expulsion
• Limits of the ban
• A balance of terror

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Questions Youve Asked about the Old
TestamentJOSHUA AND GENOCIDE

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