:what-the-hell:
I found the section of Graebers Debt on Axial Age Mesopotamia to be very enlightening with regards to how the biblical story of reconquering Canaan fits into the larger historical pattern of previously disposed city dwellers forming nomadic tribes that subsequently conquer the cities they were originally driven out of. This narrative happens in the first person in the old testament description. I think there's also some archaeological evidence suggesting that the literal telling of this event did not occur, that jericho in particular was not occupied near the time that the Hebrews would have been around, and the story here might be part of a greater narrative to put the twelve different tribes of israel into one unified ethnoreligion.
:soviet-chad: "cool, we'll start with you"
:pit: "NOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT"
bruh just play pedant and say its AKHTUALLY democide :picard-annoyed:
I mean, like, it's fucking God, he can do what he wants. He added extra water to the earth just to drown everyone once.
