Did God Really Command Genocide?
Subtitle: coming to terms with the justice of God
Publisher: Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780801016226
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The new atheism and the Old Testament.; title: Part one : Genocide texts and the problem of scriptural authority.; title: The problem clarified : an atheistic philosophical argument; title: What does it mean to say the Bible is the Word of God?; title: The God of the Old Testament versus the God of the New?; title: Part two : Occasional commands, hyperbolic texts, and genocidal massacres.; title: Does the Bible command us to kill innocent human beings?; title: Does the Bible portray the Canaanites as innocent?; title: Thrusting out, driving out, and dispossessing the Canaanites, not annihilating them; title: The question of genocide and the hyperbolic interpretation of Joshua; title: Genocide and an argument for "hagiographic hyperbole"; title: Objections from the biblical text to the hyperbolic interpretation; title: Legal and theological objections concerning genocide; title: Part three : Is it always wrong to kill innocent people?; title: Divine command theory : preliminary considerations; title: The divine command theory of obligation : what it is and is not; title: Arbitrary divine commands? : The euthyphro dilemma; title: Other euthyphro-related objections; title: Can one coherently claim that God commanded the killing of innocents?; title: Can one rationally believe God commands a violation of innocent human beings?; title: Is it rational to believe God commanded the killing of innocents?; title: What if someone claimed God commanded killing the innocent today?; title: The role of miracles and the command to kill Canaanites; title: Part four : Religion and violence.; title: Does religion cause violence?; title: Are Yahweh wars in the Old Testament just like Islamic jihad?; title: Did Old Testament war texts inspire the Crusades?; title: Turning the other cheek, pacifism, and just war; title: Afterword