Chapter 12: The War Against the Canaanites, Part 1

This lesson will begin to consider the moral dimension of the war of conquest against the Canaanites. In order to gain a broader perspective, we will turn to the relevant passages in the Torah that make reference to the Promised Land and to its inhabitants. While the first section, from the early chapters of the Book of Shemot, made only an oblique and general mention of the tribes associated with the land, the second section began to spell out more specifically the true nature of the threat that they represented.