Paul Copan on the Driving Out of the Canaanites in the Old Testament

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"The removal of the Canaanites from the land was not without justification (Canaanites were disobedient); it was not due to ethnicity or tribalism.  Nor was it extermination; it was more like disabling raids.  Many Canaanites remained in the land.  Indeed, the biblical text commonly uses exaggerated or hyperbolic language to express defeat: 'To read Joshua as extermination is to misread the text.'"1

To learn more about this topic, check out Dr. Copan's recent dialogue on Unbelievable with Justin Brierley here.

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