#71 John Dear with professor and theologian Kate Common on the two of the Great Heresies, the nonviolent origins of the Hebrew community and her book "Undoing Conquest".
About this episode
Fr. John Dear interviews Kate Common about the nonviolent origins of the Hebrew community and her book 'Undoing Conquest'.
On today’s new episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” I speak with Kate Common on the nonviolent origins of the Hebrew community as she describes in her new book, Undoing Conquest: Ancient Israel, the Bible, and the Future of Christianity ( Orbis ). Dr. Kate Common is the Assistant Professor of Public and Practical Theology at Methodist Theological School in Ohio, and the Theologian-in-Residence at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Northampton, MA. ( katecommon.com ) “In the battle of Jericho, in the book of Joshua, Israel’s army kills everyone-- men, women, children and livestock. Suddenly, human violence—genocide--is condoned by God,” she explains. But decades of archeological evidence from the “highland settlements,” she reports, now prove there was no genocide as Israel entered the promised land. Instead of conquest and genocide, the Hebrews originated from a peaceful, nonmilitaristic movement of indigenous people who formed egalitarian communities living outside the reach of the Egyptian empire. “These people never had a conquest story until 500 years later in 722 BCE when Israel was terrorized and conquered by the Assyrian empire. Later, they wrote their origins story as a…
People in this episode
Host: Fr. John Dear
Guest: Kate Common
Topics covered
- nonviolence
- Hebrew community origins
- theology
- colonialism
- genocide
- Christianity
Keywords
- nonviolence
- Hebrew community
- genocide
- theology
- colonialism
- Christianity
- Kate Common
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Methodist Theological School in Ohio, St. John’s Episcopal Church
Books & works: Undoing Conquest, the book of Joshua
Places: Egyptian empire, Assyrian empire
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