...The Message of Israel's Lawgivers; the Laws of the Old Testament Codified, Arranged in Order of Growth, And Freely Rendered in Paraphrase
...The Message of Israel's Lawgivers; the Laws of the Old Testament Codified, Arranged in Order of Growth, And Freely Rendered in Paraphrase
Kent, Charles Foster, 1867-1925
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It is perhaps surprising that the latest regulation, the traditional prece- dent associated with the name of Moses and the Midian- ites, advocates the most merciless policy toward conquered foreigners. The contrast with the principles laid down by Amos, who denounced similar cruelty in the foes of Israel (Am. 1:6-13), is striking. The pitiless attitude of the Deuteronomic and priestly lawgivers toward the heathen foes of their race is explained, however, in the reasons which are given for the s...weeping enactments. They were dealing not with present but with past conditions. The evils in Israel's character and religion were most of them traced in their day to the baneful influence of the peoples 199 Digitized by Google Military Laws The Messages of in and about Canaan. Their conclusion that the supreme mistake had been npt to exterminate these from the first was natural, although not representative of the highest revelation vouchsafed to the Hebrew race. A truer theory was that of the Deuteronomic editor of Judges, namely, that the heathen peoples were left to test Israel's fidelity to Jehovah (2 : 22 to 3 : 1).
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