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Amongst his ideal expressions of beauty is music. Music, he wrote \u201cwould remain our incredible gift to creation. For there is no other sound on earth to compare with the beauty and depth of music.\u201d In an interview with Krista Tippet, O\u2019Donohue said \u201cmusic is what language would love to be, if it could.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So why is there so much music in our chapter?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A chapter that sees a great structure fall, and the killing every man woman and child in Jericho, other than Rahab\u2019s family, is complicated by the sounds of the shofar. \u00a0Yes, the shofar was used in the desert to organize the camp to war, and later to warn people of impending danger. In our tale, the shofar is sounded to announce the arrival of God and the Israelites in Canaan, just as the shofar was blasted at coronations of our ancient kings, and still today on Rosh Hashanah when we \u201ccoronate\u201d God as our king. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But at its core the shofar is a musical instrument. It was sounded on holidays, and to mark the jubilee, often accompanied by other instruments. It is the first instrument mentioned in Psalm 150 \u201cpraise him with the blast of the horn, praise him with the harp and lyre.\u201d This instrument in our chapter is not bringing joy, and certainly not beauty, but rather the all-powerful God and the scourge of war to our enemies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why is music the instrument that brings down walls, allowing for the extermination of every living thing in the city? Many of the narratives in the book of Joshua, a book that is so challenging 3,000+ years later, raise difficult questions, and I don\u2019t have good answers. I do know that life is messy; that life and death, kindness and cruelty, beauty and repulsiveness are too often mixed up together. Sometimes they are so tightly coiled that it is hard to discern if an act is kindness or cruelty. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jericho\u2019s shofar blasting begins the conquest of Canaan, and with it the fulfillment of God\u2019s promise to the patriarchs, but tragically that conquest is intertwined with the unspeakable horrors of war. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: \u00a0Jacob Steinhardt, woodcut, \u201cJoshua\u2019s Conquest of Jericho,\u201d 1953, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">courtesy of Yosefa Bar-On 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