Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.” In the Book of Joshua, the Israelites take possession of parts of Canaan by means of conquest, mass slaughter and ...

On X, the context of the quote was not lost. “Fwiw the context here is god speaking to Joshua when he became leader of the Israelites after the death of Moses,” observed The Daily Beast’s ...

Join the NonStop Local Chord group and always be in the know. Joshua and the Israelites razed the cities of Jericho and Ai, leaving none alive and “forever a heap of ruins.” Fearing the same ...

Just imagine what it must have been like to be Joshua when God spoke those words to him. He was being sent to lead the Israelites across the Jordan River to take possession of the special land God ...

But the American writer who has found Israel most fruitful as a subject is Joshua Cohen, whose critique of Zionism is more complicated and ironic. Born in 1980 and raised in an Orthodox family in ...