He offered three lines of argument two against the conclusion Wolterstorff and I offered and one against Wolterstorff’s argument itself. However, in the introduction Stark offered a critique of Wolterstorff’s position and made reference to my defence of it. As a review, much of it was addressed to the specifics of Earl’s book. Earl’s book The Joshua Delusion? Rethinking Genocide in the Bible. My article was a revised version of a paper I presented in Atlanta in November last year (my God and the Genocide of the Canaanites series gives a good overview of my position). Around the same time I presented this paper, Thom Stark, posted a critical review of Douglas S. The accounts of killing everything that breathes function something like the boast of a high school student who describes winning a football game in terms of totally slaughtering the opposition.
Earlier this year I finished a forthcoming article in which I defended Nicholas Wolterstorff’s take on the Canaanite massacre recorded in the book of Joshua. Wolterstorff argues that the Book of Joshua is a highly figurative, hagiographic and hyperbolic account of Israel’s early skirmishes and it is not intended to be taken literally in its details.
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