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...