{"id":53849,"date":"2019-04-17T00:41:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T21:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=53849"},"modified":"2022-11-09T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T06:00:18","slug":"the-rumors-of-canaans-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-rumors-of-canaans-demise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rumors of Canaan&#8217;s Demise&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[862,430,434],"acf":{"old_id":"53849","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33859,"related_cahpter":"200","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"We learn that the conquest was never complete. And perhaps for good reason","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A moment before you begin reading chapter 13, you can&#8217;t help but wonder what&#8217;s left to talk about. Chapter 11 finished with Joshua taking &#8220;all of the land, in accordance with all God spoke to Moses&#8221; and giving it as an inheritance to the tribes, after which &#8221; the land fell quiet from wars.&#8221; As a finishing flourish, chapter 12 adds a victory song listing all of the vanquished kings. The inheritance of the land has gone off without a hitch, following all of God&#8217;s instructions perfectly. It all seems a little too good to be true. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After reading the first verse of chapter 13, you realize that the rumors of Canaan&#8217;s demise have, apparently, been greatly exaggerated. Large swaths of land remain which have been unconquered. What is more, even within conquered areas, not all cities were inherited by the people through active settlement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nor was this a new problem. Even in the conquest of the lands of Sihon and Og, some of the native peoples were left to live amongst the Jews. Despite all the commandments, all the prohibitions, and all of the warnings of the detrimental influence and dangerous liability the continued existence of a native population would pose, and despite the plain meaning of many verses which seemed to say otherwise, the real fell short of the absolute Divine ideal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps this was out of laziness, or a lack of absolute commitment to God. We do witness, in our day and age, religious societies that sanctify death, and educate for the divine approval of genocide. But if I believe that, on the whole, the Torah teaches a way of life whose &#8220;paths are paths of pleasantness, and all whose ways are peace,&#8221; I can readily understand that good Jews make bad killers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Certainly, this \u201cfailure\u201d has a price. The warnings God gave about the ways that the native peoples will lead us astray religiously and threaten us militarily are all realized, again and again. But that doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;re the type of people that could follow through with genocide. Or even that we should be. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extermination of Canaanites by Henry F. Philippoteaux. 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