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Joshua: Conquest

  1. Lesson One
    Overview of Joshua (Joshua 1-5)
    23 Activities
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    3 Assessments
  2. Lesson Two
    The Central Campaign (Joshua 6–10:28)
    16 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  3. Lesson Three
    Southern and Northern Campaigns (Joshua 10:29–12:24)
    23 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  4. Lesson Four
    Allotments (Joshua 13–21)
    19 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  5. Lesson Five
    Covenant Renewal (Joshua 22–24)
    14 Activities
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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We looked at the topic of holy war when we started reading Joshua. While some people think the Bible is “all about war,” warfare is constrained to a small portion of the Old Testament. In his 2017 book, The Old Testament Is Dying, Brent Strawn writes that the Old Testament uses “a kind of textual ‘containment strategy’” regarding Holy War. 

However, warfare—especially understood as “Holy War”—is one of the most difficult issues in the Old Testament. We want to encourage you to develop a response because antagonists of the faith will raise this topic in an attempt to discredit the faith. 

In his famous 2006 book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins trumpets the holy war texts of Joshua in his attack against the God of the Bible. Holy War comes to the fore in Joshua 10–11.