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  • War in Joshua (Boyd Project 2)

    War in Joshua (Boyd Project 2)

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    I continue my exploration of the conquest of Canaan; this issue is all about the book of Joshua. If taken at face value, Joshua may be the most violent book in the Old Testament (OT). What do we make of this book today? What did God command? And what does that highly peculiar Hebrew word…

  • The Conquest of Canaan (Boyd Project 1)

    The Conquest of Canaan (Boyd Project 1)

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    I am launching a project that will take me several issues to complete. The subject is a big one: what some people refer to as the violence of God in the Old Testament (OT). Gregory Boyd has written a voluminously fat book about this: The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Interpreting the Old Testament’s Violent…