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Cartea lui Iosua (în limba ebraică ספר יהושע, "Sefer Iehoșua"; în LXX, Ἰησοῦς, "Isus" adică Isus Navi sau Iosua Navi), este a șasea carte în Tanakh și în Vechiul Testament. În cadrul celui dintâi, este prima carte din seria Profeților dintâi (sau Primii profeți), din diviziunea Neviim. În Vechiul Testament, este prima din seria așa-numitelor "cărți istorice". Cartea descrie cucerirea și împărțirea Canaanului de către prima generație de israeliți după exod, sub conducerea lui Iosua.
Mulți savanți interpretează cartea lui Iosua ca referindu-se la ceea ce ar fi considerat astăzi genocid.[1] Alți savanți au răspuns că termenul „genocid” este un anacronism.[2]
Lemos 2016, pp. 27-28. : "Thus reads Deuteronomy 20:16–172—startling verses from a passage whose regulations on war are in many ways exemplified by the conquest narrative found in Joshua 1–12. Robert Coote has referred to these events as “an orgy of terror, violence, and mayhem.”3 Certainly, most contemporary readers recoil upon reading the account of the annihilation of Canaanite cities,4 and many scholars who have written on them have referred to the events described with the term “genocide.”5"
Lemos, Tracy Maria (). „Dispossessing Nations: Population Growth, Scarcity, and Genocide in Ancient Israel and Twentieth-Century Rwanda”. În Olyan, Saul M. Ritual Violence in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford University Press. pp. 27–66. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190249588.003.0003. ISBN978-0-19-024958-8.
Joseph, Simon J. (). The Nonviolent Messiah: Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition. Fortress Press. p. unpaginated. ISBN978-1-4514-8443-4. Accesat în . ... many scholars now doubt the historicity of the conquest narratives of Joshua 6– 11,[67] the ethics of divinely mandated genocide are inescapably problematic.[68] There is simply no denying that the Torah's narratives of genocide ...
Trimm, Charlie (). Taylor, Tristan S., ed. A Cultural History of Genocide in the Ancient World. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. p. 38. doi:10.5040/9781350034686.ch-1. ISBN978-1-350-03468-6. Genocide scholars frequently refer to the biblical accounts in Joshua as genocidal without discussion, assuming that simply quoting the relevant texts will convince anyone of their identity as genocide (Chalk and Jonassohn 1990: 61–3; Moshman 2008: 82–3). Some biblical scholars who accept the historicity of the events agree with this assessment. For example, looking at the events from the perspective of the New Testament, C. S. Cowles argues that “a radical shift in the understanding of God’s character and the sanctity of all human life occurred in between the days of the first Joshua and the second Joshua (i.e., Jesus) is beyond dispute” (2003: 41).
Kiernan, Ben (). „Is 'Genocide' an Anachronistic Concept for the Study of Early Modern Mass Killing?”. History. 99 (336): 530–548. doi:10.1111/1468-229X.12062. ISSN0018-2648.
Lemos, T. M.; Taylor, Tristan S.; Kiernan, Ben (). Kiernan, Ben, ed. The Cambridge world history of genocide. I. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 31. ISBN978-1-108-49353-6.
Taylor, Tristan S. (). A cultural history of genocide. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 2–4. ISBN978-1-350-03460-0.
Hinlicky, Paul R.; Reno, R.; Jenson, Robert; Wilken, Robert; Radner, Ephraim; Root, Michael; Sumner, George (). „Rahab, confessing YHWH, tricks her king, saving Joshua's spies and her own family 2:1–24”. Joshua (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible). Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible. Baker Publishing Group. p. unpaginated. ISBN978-1-4934-3113-7. Accesat în . anachronistic imposition of the contemporary notion of genocide on Joshua by pointing to the cultural-religious matrix of herem rather than to the modern racial-biological-genetic matrix of genocide