Understanding Warfare in The Book of Joshua From a Theological Perspective Student: Juan-Carlos Ortiz | SID #: 400491144 MTS Program OLDTEST -OT 3XJ3 (original) (raw)
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The term "holy" is not used as an epithet characterizing war in the Old Testament nor in Ancient Near Eastern documents dating to the first 1 st millennium BCE. 1 Nevertheless, people in antiquity were convinced that wars were initiated and waged by the Gods and that the people and their leaders were merely executing divine will during warfare. 2 In Old Egyptian thought the king was seen as a manifestation of 1 The expression "holy war" was first applied to the description of divine wars in ancient Israel by the orientalist Friedrich Schwally, in his book: Semitische Kriegsaltertümer: Der heilige Krieg im alten Israel (Leipzig, 1901). Gerhard von Rad argued that-in opposition to the "profane" interests of war-the Israelites had a special religious ritual, vis. the performance of "amphictyonic wars" that should be termed "holy war" (Der Heilige Krieg im alten Israel [first published in 1951; English version: Holy War in Ancient Israel, Translated and edited by M. J. Dawn; Grand Rapids, 1991]). This theory was rejected by M. Weippert who showed that all motifs in the biblical texts dealing with records or rituals of war had parallels in ancient near eastern texts ("'Heiliger Krieg' in Israel und Assyrien", ZAW 84 [1972], pp. 460-493). For further information on the term and its applications cf. C. Colpe,
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[Loke] 'Violence & Holy War from the OT & NT'
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It was Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918), the father of the famed JEDP hypothesis, who once remarked that 'the war room should be the considered Israel's first sanctuary since it looks like the cradle of the nation and the place where humans and the divine most clearly met' (Prologomena, 428). Wellhausen's hypothesis of war as the 'cradle of the nation' (Wiege der Nation) raises a number of key questions that concern us even till today. Such questions include the following: i] Is war an integral part of the Judeo-Christian salvation history? Even though Christians today have significantly moved away from some of the passages in the OT that deal about violence and holy war, we still employ 'battle' language in our religious terminology e.g. We sing the words of the popular Christian hymn 'Like a mighty army, moves the Church of God;' or quote Paul's words 'Put on the whole armour of God' (Eph 6:11); or triumphantly declare 'From his mouth issues a sharp sword with which to smite the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron; he will tread the wine press of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty' (Rev 19:15). Hobbs argue that terms like 'victory, deliverance' and even 'salvation' are copyright
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A basic introduction to the use of "war" (polemos) in the New Testament. Helpful statistics and classification of usage into eschatological, paraenetic, and the metaphorical use of messianic war motifs. Furnish, Victor Paul. "War and Peace in the New Testament." Interpretation 38 (1984): 363-379. Explains clearly the different context and timeframe of the New Testament writings (compared with the Old Testament), and thus the indirect nature of the evidence for the attitudes of Jesus and Paul to war and violence. Hegermann, Harald. "Krieg III: Neues Testament." In Theologische Realenzyklopädie. Edited by Gerhard Krause and Gerhard Müller, 25-28. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 1990. Includes discussion of war and apocalyptic expectation, holy war traditions, military service, and other ethical questions. Hobbs, Raymond. "The Language of Warfare in the New Testament." In Modelling Early Christianity: Social-Scientific Studies of the New Testament in Its Context. Edited by Philip F. Esler, 259-273. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Catalogues the language of warfare and weaponry in the New Testament and argues that it functions referentially and illustratively in the Gospels (usually negatively) and Acts (more positively), and metaphorically in the Epistles (as exhortation). Revelation is not analyzed. Klassen, William. "War in the NT." In The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Vol. 6. Edited by David Noel Freedman, 867-875. New York: Doubleday, 1992. Detailed comment on war in the Greco-Roman world, God as "warrior" in Judaism, Jesus as eschatological or messianic warrior, and ethical questions concerning war and military service in the New Testament and early church. LaSor, William Sanford. "War." In The Oxford Companion to the Bible.