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Genocide of the Canaanites[edit]

I categorized the Book of Joshua in this category. The categorization was reverted with the following comment:

'Anachronistic, absurd extrapolation. By that standard, all ancient books are about "genocide".' Duponieux

A passage from the Book for example:

"They totally destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed... For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy..." (Joshua 11:11, 20).

"By that standard, all ancient books are about genocide"? You mean Analects, Antigona, Kama Sutra...?

Does not the chapter "Moral and political interpretation" in the Book of Joshua list reliable scholars who found in the Book genocide and ethnic cleansing? Can you edit your "anachronistic, absurd extrapolation" in the chapter itself?

Israel those days was chiefdom of 12 tribes. Genocide was norm of the chiefdom-level warfare worldwide.^[1]

Did you decisively demonstrate that all this anthropological research is "absurd extrapolation"? Can you refer to your research in the field and and positive reviews?

Or the concensus cancels all pre-modern genocides as "anachronistic"?--Maxaxa (talk) 18:33, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

^ Robert Carneiro, "Chiefdom-level warfare," The Anthropology of War, Camridge University Press, 1990

[1] Robert Carneiro, "Chiefdom-level warfare," The Anthropology of War, Camridge University Press, 1990

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