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i used marcion because there seemed to be a sharp line between hebrew scripture and new testament.
if you read the prophets...there is a significant amount of revision to the "smite 'em all" rhetoric. and even in the pentatuch...the first five books...there are other notes to the tune.
it's something that has to be looked at in total. to speak to the topic of the thread a bit...we don't interpret the story in terms of the detail. we interpret the detail in terms of the story.
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