tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30422841.post3603968392377617943..comments2023-05-22T03:18:18.107-06:00Comments on Gotthammer: Mike Perschon's Online Asylum: Josh and Caleb Chapter 4: The Return, Episode 02Mike Perschonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335943113292616702noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30422841.post-69746176502941169142011-03-30T18:52:32.705-06:002011-03-30T18:52:32.705-06:00I'm really enjoying this series, which I'v...I'm really enjoying this series, which I've never had the chance to see from beginning to end. Keep it up!<br /><br />Regarding the wars of Joshua, I quite like John Howard Yoder's pointed comment on the gap between Christian and Jewish biblical interpretation:<br /><br />"Centuries of Christian anti-Semitism have established the pattern of thinking that the Jewish faith was warlike and Jesus was peaceable, so that Jesus’s announcing a peaceable kingdom was the reason that 'the Jews' rejected him. That misreading is a source of continuing confusion in Christian thought. It is made all the more confusing when we remember that Christians, at least since the fourth century, have not been peaceable, whereas Jews have never been violent from the second century until this one."<br /><br />As a pacifist, Yoder emphasizes how Christian pacifism stands in continuity with the development of the OT (from Judges through Jeremiah, the Davidic kingship and standing military is revealed as a failure to trust Yahweh) and with later rabbinic thought (which is also pacifist.) If he's right, then it's mostly Christians who use the conquest of Canaan to legitimate our own violence.Michaelhttp://beyondthesecularcanopy.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com