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Many [neutrality is disputed] scholars interpret the book of Joshua as referring to what would now be considered genocide. [1] When the Israelites arrive in the Promised Land, they are commanded to annihilate "the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites" who already lived there, to avoid being tempted into idolatry. [2]
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.
The famine in Samaria was one of many depicted in the Bible. PHAS/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesAs the coronavirus spread rapidly around the world last year, the United Nations warned ...
Famine's mission to make wheat and barley scarce but "hurt not the oil and the wine" could be an allusion to this episode. [ 34 ] [ 51 ] The red horse and its rider, who take peace from the Earth, might represent the prevalence of civil strife at the time Revelation was written; internecine conflict ran rampant in the Roman Empire during and ...
Famine in Warsaw Ghetto, as well as other ghettos and concentration camps (note: this famine was the result of deliberate denial of food to ghetto residents on the part of Nazis). [129] Occupied Poland: 1940–1948: Famine in Morocco between 1940 and 1948, because of refueling system installed by France. [130] Morocco: 200,000: 1941–1944
Raphael Lemkin (a pioneer of genocide studies [103]: 35 who coined the term genocide, and an initiator of the Genocide Convention), called the famine an intentional genocide. James Mace and Norman Naimark have written that the Holodomor was a genocide and the intentional result of Soviet policies under Stalin. [171]
The story of Mary of Bethezuba is a story of cannibalism told by Josephus in his "Jewish War" (VI,193) [1] which occurred as a consequence of famine and starvation during the siege of Jerusalem in August AD 70 by Roman legions commanded by Titus. The tale is only one account of the horrors suffered at Jerusalem in the summer of 70.
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food [1] [2] caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality ...