After Class Podcast
After Class Podcast
Ronald D. Peters, John C. Nugent, Samuel C. Long
3.20 - Sugarcoating Genocide and Political Biases
48 minutes Posted May 18, 2020 at 12:00 pm.
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The guys engage tough listener questions about Old Testament violence, like "Aren't you just sugarcoating genocide?" They also explore how modern political and geo-political biases tend to influence our interpretation of tough biblical passages. Is there a right or left leaning way of reading Joshua? Do we sometimes project our understanding of the modern day Israeli-Palestinian conflict back onto the book of Joshua? Are we so far away from the Holocaust that we are beginning to forget some important lessons about how to speak about the Jewish people's role in Scripture?