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.

Bloody, Brutal, and Barbaric?: Wrestling with Troubling War Texts1

Confronting Old Testament Controversies1

Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence1

Dark God: Cruelty, Sex, and Violence in the Old Testament1

Did God Really Command Genocide?: Coming to Terms with the Justice of God1

Disarming Scripture: Cherry-Picking Liberals, Violence-Loving Conservatives, and Why We All Need to Learn to Read the Bible Like Jesus Did1

Disturbing Divine Behavior: Troubling Old Testament Images of God1

Divine Evil?: The Moral Character of the God of Abraham1

Divine Presence amid Violence: Contextualizing the Book of Joshua1

Divine Violence and the Christus Victor Atonement Model: God's Reluctant Use of Violence for Soteriological Ends1

Does the Bible Justify Violence? (Facets)1

Encountering Violence in the Bible (Bible in the Modern World)1

God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?1

God Is a Warrior1

God of Violence Yesterday, God of Love Today?: Wrestling honestly with the Old Testament1

God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction1

Hard Sayings of Jesus (Jesus Library)1

Hard Sayings of the Bible (Hard Sayings Series the Hard Sayings)1

Holy War in the Bible: Christian Morality and an Old Testament Problem1

Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God1

Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses1

Making Sense of Old Testament Genocide: Christian Interpretations of Herem Passages (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs)1

Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblical Authority and the Dark Side of Scripture1

Show Them No Mercy: 4 Views on God and Canaanite Genocide1

Struggling with Scripture1

Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (Overtures to Biblical Theology)1

The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It1

The Command to Exterminate the Canaanites: Deuteronomy 7 (Oudtestamentische Studien, Old Testament Studies)1

The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Volumes 1 & 21

The God I Don't Understand: Reflections on Tough Questions of Faith1

The Goodness of God1

The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When It Gets God Wrong (And Why Inerrancy Tries To Hide It)1

The Immoral Bible: Approaches to Biblical Ethics1

The Joshua Delusion?: Rethinking Genocide in the Bible1

The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites1

The Problem of War in the Old Testament1
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