Find me a home (now focusing on biblical Israel & the talmud)

**KarlXII** · 04-22-2009, 01:16

Originally Posted by hooahguy

guess so.

So Jericho and Ai, two cities whose people did not attack the Israelites nor bear any offense to them, were still deserving of destruction in a war of religious conquest?

**Hooahguy** · 04-22-2009, 01:23

Originally Posted by KarlXII

So Jericho and Ai, two cities whose people did not attack the Israelites nor bear any offense to them, were still deserving of destruction in a war of religious conquest?

that is debatable.

**KarlXII** · 04-22-2009, 01:24

Originally Posted by hooahguy

that is debatable.

Go ahead, I have my Bible right here.

**Hooahguy** · 04-22-2009, 01:29

thats the thing.
the talmud is rarely to be taken at face value. imagine it like a burger. to take the bible as it is without the commentary of the rabbis is like eating the bun and not the meat part.
ready to start pouring over countless pages of difficult Aramaic texts?

**KarlXII** · 04-22-2009, 01:30

Originally Posted by hooahguy

thats the thing.
the talmud is rarely to be taken at face value. imagine it like a burger. to take the bible as it is without the commentary of the rabbis is like eating the bun and not the meat part.

I am awaiting the casus belli, I am awaiting the great offensive tooken by Jericho and Ai to destroy the Israelites, and not the other way around.

Please don't avoid the question.

**Hooahguy** · 04-22-2009, 01:31

i will quote myself.

Originally Posted by hooahguy

i learned a very interesting piece on the 7 nations issue.
the rambam answers that G-d needed a monotheistic society in Israel. he offered to the 7 nations that if they would believe in him they could stay, but if not, they had to be expelled.

bear in mind that "the great offensive" doesnt need to be a military attack. could be societal or something.
also, what are you trying to prove?

**KarlXII** · 04-22-2009, 01:38

Originally Posted by hooahguy

i will quote myself.

Your quote simply shows that the Israelites were religious zealots that wished no more than to spread their religion across Canaan, no matter how many men, women and children they killed to get their.

bear in mind that "the great offensive" doesnt need to be a military attack. could be societal or something.

Ok. Can you prove that Jericho and Ai made any attack on the Israelites, military, economic, societal, that gave the Israelites the right to destroy them and massacre the populations?