The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest Quotes

“The ancient world assigned a value to divinely approved order similar to the value we assign to human rights.”
― John H. Walton, The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites

“Art that is based on scenes from the Bible is not better than art that is based on scenes from, say, Shakespeare or Homer simply because it is based on the Bible.”
― John H. Walton, The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites

“God’s wisdom, not God’s justice, forms the basis of God’s activity in the world. Faith trusts that God is wise and that therefore his purposes are good, even if they don’t seem that way to any system we can understand. God does not need to be defended; he wants to be trusted.”
― John H. Walton, The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites