Making Sense of Old Testament Genocide

The divine commands to annihilate the seven nations living in Canaan (to ''devote them to destruction'', herem in Biblical Hebrew) are perhaps the most morally troubling texts of the Hebrew and Christian bibles. Making Sense of Old Testament Genocide: Christian Interpretations of Herem Passages addreses the challenges these texts pose. It presents the various ways in which interpreters from the fi...