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[9] [6] [neutrality is disputed] Christian Hofreiter writes that for Christians, the plain meaning of the Bible and modern ethical beliefs give rise to five contradictory premises: "(1) God is good. (2) The Bible is true. (3) Genocide is atrocious. (4) According to the Bible, God commanded and commended genocide.
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
Douglas Tottle is mostly known for his book Fraud, Famine, and Fascism: the Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard in which he argues that the theory that the Soviet famine of 1932–33 was intentionally orchestrated by the USSR, was a creation of Nazis propagandists, thence perpetuated in America by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. [12]
The Book of Kings (Hebrew: סֵפֶר מְלָכִים, Sēfer Məlāḵīm) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Kings) in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It concludes the Deuteronomistic history , a history of ancient Israel also including the books of Joshua , Judges , and Samuel .
Abrahamian comments that Majd's book includes an "exaggerated discussion" of losses during the famine, [28] a view he shares with Mahmood Messkoub, [29] Abbas Milani [30] and Rudi Matthee. [6] Abrahamian describes calling the famine a genocide as "wild accusation" and attributes the vast majority of the 2 million deaths he estimates to cholera ...
Famine in Damascus [4] Ottoman Empire: 1732–1733: Kyōhō famine: Japan: 12,172 – 169,000 [67] 1738–1756: Famine in West Africa, half the population of Timbuktu died of starvation [68] West Africa: 1740–1741: Irish Famine (1740–1741) Ireland: 300,000 – 480,000: 1750–1756: Famine in the Senegambia region [69] Senegal, Gambia ...
(The first book on the subject, it is the most comprehensive treatment.) Davidson, Amy (11 January 2016). "The Next Great Famine". The New Yorker. Kershaw, Ian, "The Great Famine and Agrarian Crisis in England 1315–1322", Past & Present, 59, pp. 3–50 (May 1973). Available online from JSTOR. Second most widely cited article.
Other notable famines include the Great Famine of 1876–1878, in which 6.1 million to 10.3 million people died [80] and the Indian famine of 1899–1900, in which 1.25 to 10 million people died. [81] The famines were ended by the 20th century with the exception of the Bengal famine of 1943 killing an estimated 2.1 million Bengalis during World ...