Bloody Brutal and Barbaric?: Wrestling with Troubling War Texts 9780830870738, 9780830852499

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Bloody Brutal and Barbaric?: Wrestling with Troubling War Texts
9780830870738, 9780830852499

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Gordon K. Oeste
William J. Webb

Table of contents :
Preface: Story Behind the Book
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Rethinking Holy War Texts

Part I: Hard Questions: Genocide and War Rape
1. Slaughtering Children? Grabbing Virgins?

Part II: Traditional Answers: Good Answers for Big-Picture, Storyline Questions
2. Where Traditional Answers Do Not Work
3. Where Traditional Answers Do Work

Part III: Better Answers: Better for Questions About Genocide and War Rape
4. Reading the Bible Redemptively
5. War Rape, Part I: The Ugly Side
6. War Rape, Part II: The Redemptive Side
7. War Rape Meets Genocide
8. Total-Kill Hyperbole, Part I: ANE Warfare
9. Total-Kill Hyperbole, Part II: Joshua and Judges
10. Arguments against Hyperbole
11. 1 Samuel 15: Hyperbole Thesis Undone?
12. Drive Out: An Equivalent Alternative
13. Ancient War Atrocities
14. Yahweh as Uneasy War God: The Subversive War Texts
15. Cross, Resurrection, and Ascension: The Battle is Already Won
16. Jesus as Apocalyptic Warrior: One Word Will Fell Them
Conclusion: The Unfinished Justice Story

List of Online Appendixes
Bibliography
Author Index
Scripture Index

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