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“There is also one obvious contextual issue for the translation of the verbal form of ḥērem. If the seven nations are to be “destroyed” (v. 2), why should intermarriage need to be prohibited (vv. 3–4)? Since, to put it bluntly, corpses…

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“Clearly, there is real force in this kind of objection to divine election. If there are the chosen, then there are also, in some sense, the unchosen. And if one ceases to assume, or at least hopefully expect, that one is among the chosen, but rather adopts, even if only in imagination, the position of the unchosen,29 then the possible…

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“In any case, whatever the pedigree, the concern has become widespread that a classic biblically-rooted belief in a single deity who chooses particular people…

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“What, now, of those not elected? Those not elected cannot be expected not to be hurt by not being of the seed of Abraham, whom God loves above all others. The Bible clearly depicts the suffering of Esau. . . . And yet, in recounting the blessing of Jacob and the exclusion of Esau, no careful reader can fail to notice that the…

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“My positive interpretive thesis is thus straightforward. In response to the puzzle as to why Deuteronomy should promote and prioritize ḥērem if it “was…

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“On the one hand, we have seen that the particularizing logic of election is an expression of the particularizing logic of love. When there…

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“If the (apparently) ancient practice of ḥērem is promoted when it is not feasible in military terms, then this is a good reason for…

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“There is also one obvious contextual issue for the translation of the verbal form of ḥērem. If the seven nations are to be “destroyed”…

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“such a translation may beg the interpretive question. Deuteronomy has two other verbs to express a straightforward sense of “destroy.”57 Moreover, the conceptuality of…

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“The recognition that idolatry really consists in making gods for ourselves and putting our trust in them is the great breakthrough in Israel’s thinking…

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“So despite Humphreys’s rhetoric about scholarly misinterpretation and the “inspirational” potential of his interpretation, I think it is in fact hard to improve upon…

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