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  • Signature Scene: The Israelites marching around Jericho seven times and blowing their horns to bring the walls down.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Thanks to extreme Values Dissonance, Old Testament scholar Patrick D. Miller once remarked that in the Book of Joshua "there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers." What was written as a glorious, heaven-ordained victory of the Israelites against depraved heathen foes comes across to modern readers as conquest, colonialism, and genocide, considered the gravest of crimes in modern consciousness.

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