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Christians cannot ignore the intersection of religion and violence, whether contemporary or ancient. In our own Scriptures, war texts that appear to approve of genocidal killings and war rape—forcibly taking female captives for wives—raise hard questions about biblical ethics and the character of God. Have we missed something in our traditional readings? In Bloody, Brutal, and Barbaric? William...

ground away from their cities. The destruction of a city’s king and its armed forces meant that the biblical authors could speak of the total-kill (representative, i.e., part for the whole) destruction of all the people, even those in the cities, in a hyperbolic sense.
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