God Told Them to Kill Everyone. Here's Why.

Want to learn how I study the Bible? Join My Community! https://www.skool.com/the-strange-bible/about Did God command Genocide? This is a very interesting question to ask.. let's see! My Links Instagram: / https://instagram.com/nilsglenn Free Bible Study Guide: https://nilsglenn.gumroad.com/l/OnEaglesWings Subscribe to my Newsletter: https://nilsglenn.beehiiv.com/ Business email: nils@biblemate.io - Kwon Younger Jr., Ancient Conquest Accounts: A Study in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical History Writing (JSOT Press, 1990) - Kenneth Kitchen, On the Reliability of the Old Testament (Eerdmans, 2003) — historicity of the conquest, three burned cities argument - John Walton, The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest (IVP Academic, 2017) — kherem, God communicating in culturally intelligible idioms - Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman, The Bible Unearthed (Free Press, 2001) - Richard Hess, Joshua (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries) — cities as military forts/garrisons, Jericho - Michael Jones (Inspiring Philosophy), Exodus Rediscovered series - Mary K. Delnero & Jan Vím Velíus, "The Campaign of Joshua 1–8 and Its Relation to the Story of King Kirta" — Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, 2008 — - Daniel Fleming — the scholar who identified the seven-day siege as a warfare motif in Ugaritic texts - Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster? (Baker Books, 2011) — ancient warfare rhetoric chapter, military fort argument - Paul Copan & Matthew Flannagan, Did God Really Command Genocide? (Baker Books, 2014) — the most thorough book-length treatment of the moral objections - Alan Segal — Second Temple literature background - Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) — chapter 2 - Michael Heiser, The Unseen Realm (Lexham Press, 2015) — divine council, Nephilim, kherem geography, Anakim - Michael Heiser, Reversing Hermon (Defender Publishing, 2017) — Genesis 6, Second Temple background Song used: https://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/conspiracy-theories/1456