TY - JOUR AU - Yohanes, Hendra PY - 2019/11/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Critical-Multifaceted Review Against Genocide Allegations of Ancient Conquest Account of the Promised Land JF - Veritas: Jurnal Teologi dan Pelayanan JA - VJTP VL - 18 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.36421/veritas.v18i2.332 UR - https://ojs.seabs.ac.id/index.php/Veritas/article/view/332 SP - 107-123 AB - <p>The purpose of this article is to deliver a critical-multifaceted review against the accusation that the Judeo-Christian God has commanded genocide to Israelites in the conquest of the Promised Land. Correspondingly, I try to reconsider what matters essentially in the accusation and dissect the accusation into three facets, included legal terminology, interpretive and moral-philosophical facets. By analyzing the criteria of genocide in international law, I argue that the ancient conquest account of the Promised Land in the Old Testament dissatisfies these criteria, thus the conquest was incorrectly classified as genocide. I also gather some examples of misinterpretation of the conquest account of the promised land. I agree that the figurative-hyperbolic language as a common literary feature in the ancient conquest account and the ideology of war viewed as the divine retribution in ancient near eastern worldview. Then, I take Joshua chapters 9-11 as a biblical case study to demonstrate historical-cultural gaps between the ancient near eastern context of the conquest account and our present context. In the last facet, I tersely argue that there is a more contextual approach based on theistic moral argument instead of the New Atheist accusation.</p> ER -