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Ancient Conquest Accounts

Scholarly comparison of Assyrian, Hittite, and Egyptian conquest reports with the conquest narratives of Joshua.

Author: K. Lawson Younger Jr.
Publisher: JSOT Press
Tradition: Ancient Near Eastern and Hebrew Bible scholarship

Citation

K. Lawson Younger Jr., Ancient Conquest Accounts: A Study in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical History Writing, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 98, JSOT Press, 1990.

Where this source is used

The Canaanite conquest was genocideThe conquest texts give wrongdoing, not ethnicity, as their reason, and use the exaggerated idiom of ancient war reports. That narrows the charge but leaves hard questions.