Weapons and Warfare in Ancient Israel

By James Moyer, Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Religious Studies, Southwest Missouri State University. The book of Judges describes the period when the Israelites were settling into the Promised Land following the Exodus from Egypt. Because the conquest was not complete, warfare was frequent, and resulted in the hero stories...
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