Bloody, Brutal, and Barbaric?: Wrestling with Troubling War Texts

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Christians cannot ignore the intersection of religionand violence, whether contemporary or ancient. In our own Scriptures, war texts that appear to approve of genocidal killings and war rape—forcibly taking female captives for wives—raise hard questions about biblical ethics and the characterof God. Have we missed something in our traditional r...