TY  - BOOK
AU  - Copan,Paul
AU  - Flannagan,Matthew
TI  - Did God really command genocide?: coming to terms with the justice of God 
SN  - 9780801016226
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Grand Rapids, Michigan
PB  - Baker Books
KW  - Ethnicity in the Bible
KW  - Genocide
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Violence in the Bible
KW  - Theodicy
KW  - God (Christianity)
KW  - Righteousness
KW  - Love
N1  - Introduction: the new atheism and the Old Testament -- Part 1. Genocide texts and the problem of scriptural authority. 1. The problem clarified: an atheistic philosophical argument ; 2. What does it mean to say the Bible is the  Word of God? ; 3. The God of the Old Testament versus the God of the New -- Part 2. Occasional commands, hyperbolic texts, and genocidal massacres. 4. Does the Bible command us to kill innocent human beings? ; 5. Does the Bible portray the Canaanites as innocent? ; 6. Thrusting out, driving out, and dispossessing the Canaanites--not annihilating them ; 7. The question of genocide and the hyperbolic interpretation of Joshua ; 8. Genocide and an argument for 'hagiographic hyperbole' ; 9. Objections from the biblical text to the hyperbolic interpretation ; 10. Legal and theological objections concerning genocide -- Part 3: Is it always wrong to kill innocent people? 11. Divine command theory: preliminary considerations ; 12. The divine command theory of obligation: what it is--and is not ; 13. Arbitrary divine commands? the Euthyphro dilemma ; 14. Other Euthyphro- related objections ; 15. Can one coherently claim that God commanded the killing of innocents? ; 16. Can one rationally believe God commands a violation of innocent human beings? ; 17. Is it rational to believe God commanded the killing of innocents? ; 18. What if someone claimed God commanded killing the innocent today? ; 19. The role of miracles and the command to kill Canaanites -- Part 4. Religion and violence. 20. Does religion cause violence? ; 21. Are Yahweh wars in the Old Testament just like Islamic jihad? ; 22. Did Old Testament war texts inspire the crusades? ; 23. Turning the other cheek, pacifism, and just war
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