TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rad, Gerhard von
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TI  - Holy War in Ancient Israel
SN  - 9780802805287
U1  - 296.3827 
CY  - U.S.A.
KW  - War -- Biblical teaching
KW  - Theology of the Old Testament
KW  - War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
N2  - From the earliest days of Israel's existence as a people, holy war was a sacred institution, undertaken as a cultic act of a religious community. The concept of holy war, an intriguing and sometimes disturbing theme in the Old Testament, is given its most articulate expression in this classic study by the distinguished German scholar Gerhard von Rad. For Israel, the most important feature of holy war was the demand for faith in Yahweh's saving acts. However, von Rad argues, it was not Yahweh alone who acted
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