Why Rahab was saved and Akan lost? Deuteronomy understanding of the order of destruction (herem ) in the light of the Book of Joshua
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https://doi.org/10.12775/BPTh.2015.024Keywords
Rahab, Achan, ḥerem, ban, JoshuaAbstract
The institution of the Yahweh’s war and the law of ban are one of the most controversial issues in Bible. The Book of Joshua, as description of the conquest of Canaan often hard back to this concept. Against the background of the conquest’s descriptions of Canaan, the narrations about Rachab and Achan occupy special place and they are an exception in the procedure of the holy war, in particularly in the law of ban. On the basis of these narrations, the article tries to indicate motifs and reasons of rescue of the pagan Rachab from the curse and the punishment of the Israel’s warrior Achan.References
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