acking people who have no intention of fighting back. Examples from the Bible show that before this the Jew's faithfulness to their religion either changed the hearts of their enemies or made them fear and respect the God of Israel enough to leave them alone. The Jews could win moral battles that were sufficient to save most of their lives. If this did not happen, God would intervene.
That belief that God was fighting on their side is drawn very much from the story of the Exodus, which Blenkinsopp says may not have actually happened.
Traditions can be together out of repressed desires or anxieties, a kind of collective false memory syndrome, or simply invented. Historians have quite properly pointed out that, apart from the biblical re
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