Jerusalem University College

Seminar Session Resources

“What Does Covenant Have to Do with War?” with Dr. Elaine Phillips

  • Fee Gordon and Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, Fourth Edition. Zondervan, 2014, Chapter 9, “The Law(s): Covenant Stipulations for Israel.”
  • Gundry, Stan (editor). Show Them No Mercy: Four Views on God and Canaanite Genocide. Zondervan, 2003.
  • Phillips, Elaine A. “'Do Not Pray, Plead, or Pester Me Because No One is Listening' (Jeremiah 7:16).” In Speaking with God: Probing Old Testament Prayers for Contemporary Significance, edited by Phillip Camp and Elaine Phillips. McMaster Biblical Studies Series 8. Wipf & Stock, 2021.

“Winning War through Weakness? The Counterintuitive Approach to Warfare in the Hebrew Bible” with Dr. Charlie Trimm

  • Charlie Trimm, Fighting for the King and the Gods: A Survey of Warfare in the Ancient Near East (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017).
  • Charlie Trimm, “The Sword of YHWH: The Human Use of Divine Weapons in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible.” Pages 293–304 in For Us, but Not to Us: Essays on Creation, Covenant, and Context in Honor of John H. Walton. Edited by Adam E. Miglio, Caryn A. Reeder, Joshua T. Walton, and Kenneth C. Way. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2020.
  • Hawk, L. Daniel. The Violence of the Biblical God: Canonical Narrative and Christian Faith. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2019.
  • Webb, William J., and Gordon K. Oeste. Bloody, Brutal, and Barbaric: Wrestling with Troubling War Texts. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2019.

“Meditating on the Laws of War: Joshua and Torah” with Dr. Matt Lynch

  • Matthew Lynch, Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God (IVP, 2023).
  • L. Daniel Hawk, Joshua (Berit Olam; Liturgical Press, 2000).
  • Susan Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence (OUP, 1995).

“Conflict in the Holy Land: Modern Perspectives” with Dr. Jon Kaplan

  • Ahron Bregman, Israel’s Wars: A history since 1947, 4th ed. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016).
  • Daniel Gordis, Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn (New York: HarperCollins, 2016).
  • Benny Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist–Arab Conflict, 1881–2001 (New York: Vintage Books, 2001).
  • Howard M. Sachar, A History of Israel, 3rd ed. (New York: Knopf, 2010). Anita Shapira, Israel: A History (Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, 2012).
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