Here you’ll find books from a variety of perspectives, not all from a standpoint of faith. If you’ve just started wrestling with this topic I recommend the following four books.
- Show Them No Mercy : 4 Views on God and Canaanite Genocide (2003)
- Cross Vision – Gregory Boyd (2017)
- Did God Really Command Genocide? – Paul Copan & Matt Flannagan (2014)
- Disturbing Divine Behaviour – Eric Seibert (2009)
The authors/contributors have quite different views when it comes to the nature of scripture and their approaches reflect this.
16Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence1
23Dark God: Cruelty, Sex, and Violence in the Old Testament1
13Did God Really Command Genocide?: Coming to Terms with the Justice of God1
12Disarming Scripture: Cherry-Picking Liberals, Violence-Loving Conservatives, and Why We All Need to Learn to Read the Bible Like Jesus Did1
10Disturbing Divine Behavior: Troubling Old Testament Images of God1
17Divine Evil?: The Moral Character of the God of Abraham1
31Divine Presence amid Violence: Contextualizing the Book of Joshua1
43Divine Violence and the Christus Victor Atonement Model: God's Reluctant Use of Violence for Soteriological Ends1
33Does the Bible Justify Violence? (Facets)1
26Encountering Violence in the Bible (Bible in the Modern World)1
22God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?1
36God Is a Warrior1
25God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction1
40Hard Sayings of Jesus (Jesus Library)1
14Hard Sayings of the Bible (Hard Sayings Series the Hard Sayings)1
34Holy War in the Bible: Christian Morality and an Old Testament Problem1
8Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God1
15Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses1
37Making Sense of Old Testament Genocide: Christian Interpretations of Herem Passages (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs)1
4Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblical Authority and the Dark Side of Scripture1
9Show Them No Mercy: 4 Views on God and Canaanite Genocide1
11Struggling with Scripture1
20Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (Overtures to Biblical Theology)1
21The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It1
38The Command to Exterminate the Canaanites: Deuteronomy 7 (Oudtestamentische Studien, Old Testament Studies)1
2The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Volumes 1 & 21
39The God I Don't Understand: Reflections on Tough Questions of Faith1
3The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When It Gets God Wrong (And Why Inerrancy Tries To Hide It)1
18The Immoral Bible: Approaches to Biblical Ethics1
24The Joshua Delusion?: Rethinking Genocide in the Bible1
6The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites1
35The Problem of War in the Old Testament1
28The Savage Text: The Use and Abuse of the Bible1
7The Skeletons in God's Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War1
19The Unholy in Holy Scripture: The Dark Side of the Bible1
41The Vehement Jesus (Studies in Peace and Scripture: Institute of Mennonite Studies)1
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