Critics of Israel often note that its reprisals are excessively brutal and result in large numbers of civilian casualties and ...

Liberation begins with God giving the Israelites control of their own time and inviting them to commemorate and sanctify ...

On the other hand, given the milieu of the ancient Near East with its temples and sacrifices, this was God’s way of reinforcing the chosen-ness of His people ... God and Israel as manifested ...

The conflict in Israel today is often linked to the belief that the Bible serves as the Israelis' claim to the land, based on God's covenant with ... the scattering of its people, their ...