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God Is a Man of War: The Problem of Violence in the Old Testament (Stephen De Young)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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The Young's War of Extermination

Early christian and present orthodox interpretation of the many demons with whom christ later interacted is that they were the evil spirits disembodied as a result of israel's battles against the giant clans. This was also a cond tempra jewish belief. The new testament therefore does not speak of a different spiritual reality than does the old. We have been taught to view these wars as having no real divine component, merely wars between two tribes of human beings vying for land and ex mination. But this is again, a failure of broader vision.

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