Book of Joshua

And it's the opposite of Jewish ethical teachings.

But it harks back to a... very complicated book in the Bible called the Book of Joshua, which is a tale of repeated genocides by the Israelites conquering the so-called Promised Land.

It's actually, in historical terms, a political tract written in the seventh century BC.

that was a kind of a political tract in the style of the Mesopotamian glory writing of those centuries where the king said, I killed all my opponents.

After translating the plan, Master Sergeant V called it the Jericho Wall.

That's a reference to a story from the Book of Joshua, where by marching around the city of Jericho for seven days, the Israelites caused the walls to collapse.

The translated plan was again circulated through the IDF, including to the Gaza division at their base down by the border wall.

But according to a military assessment obtained by The New York Times, it was, quote, not yet possible to determine whether the plan has been fully accepted and how it will be manifested.

Son of a gun.

Book of Joshua, chapter 5, verse 10.

I thought that was common knowledge and we'd all

know it.

And now the text says, and this is again an editorial comment on the event, a historic editorial comment, There was never a day before that or since then for God to attend to the words of a man, meaning for God to allow a man to command him.

God stopped the sun and the moon because Joshua said so.

Because God's fighting for Yisrael.

So as you can see in these five lines, The first line is the command.

Then came a description of the Council of Jerusalem, as given in the 15th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, and a rehearsal of its decrees.

The Acts of this Council end with the Golden Rule, as inserted in the Codex Bizet, which and that which ye will that other men should not do to you do ye not to other men he then proceeds to set before his people what he considers the source of all legislation the divine ordinances given amidst the thunders of sinai and shows how that law was modified by the teaching of christ Before leaving the Anglo-Saxon period of our history, mention must be made of one other work which belongs to it, a metrical version of the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua, partly translated and partly epitomized by Elfrick Abbott of Peterborough in 1004 and Archbishop of York in 1023.

It is sometimes known as Elfrick's Hepateuch.

and it has been suggested that it is probably part only of a much larger work, inasmuch as there are translations of the Book of Kings, Esther, Job, Judith, the Maccabees, and of the four Gospels in existence, which appear to be of the same date and are supposed to be from the same pen.

Some of them are, though, and that is the reason that we're going to be discussing that story in the context of good news.

After that, this is our week for Bible study with an atheist, and we're going to talk about the book of Joshua.

this week, when genocide becomes God's will.

Now, we've talked a lot in the past about God, Christianity, and violence, but in this particular case, I'm taking a little different look at it.

This is fantastic news.

All right, that is it for our Unmasking the News segment, and this is our week for Bible study with an atheist.

So what we're going to do is take a break, and when we come back, we're going to break down the book of Joshua, probably in a way that your pastor has never done.

And welcome to Bible Study with an Atheist, where we're going to talk about the book of Joshua, when genocide becomes God's will.

In terms of organization, technology, military civilization, literature, the arts, and the like, they could not match the settled, more civilized societies they encountered and often conquered.

The Book of Joshua describes Canaan as the land bristling with fortified cities, and yet they were quickly defeated by the nomadic Israelites.

At a time when Roman power, encompassing practically all the lands around the Mediterranean, was approaching its zenith, Rome's enemies in Germany and Gaul consisted of endlessly shifting tribes who lived in wooden huts.

Four centuries later, the Germanic Visigoths sacked Rome.