Exaggeration?
(Ethnic Cleansing in the Bible #2)
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Is what the Bible says about the destruction of the Canaanites – commanded by God in the Old Testament – exaggerated for effect? This was a common way of speaking in the Ancient Near East, and everyone would have understood that it was not meant to be taken literally. There are some hints in the Bible's narrative that this is what is happening.
Second video in the series 'Ethnic Cleansing in the Bible?' with professor Paul Copan, author of 'Is God a moral monster? Making sense of the Old Testament God.'
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