[This is the fifth in a multi-part series on violence in Joshua. Here are parts One, Two, Three, and Four] In his 2003 essay on Joshua in the book Show Them No Mercy, Tremper Longman III draws an enlightening yet disturbing comparison between the extremist ideology of Osama bin Laden and that expressed in the […]
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Joshua and Violence (Part 4): Two Stories of ‘Conquest’
[This is the fourth in a multi-part series on Joshua and Violence. To catch up, read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3] The battle of Jericho exerts a powerful hold on the imagination of Jews and Christians. It shows up in most kids Bibles, and thus from an early age shapes opinions about the book’s […]