Undoing Conquest: Ancient Israel, the Bible, and the Future of Christianity

"Kate Common has written a book both heartbreaking and inspiring. The heartbreak is the fact that many of us, through millennia, have used the Bible to mutilate others’ cultures and lives. The inspiration is that Common mines a deeply unheralded “still small voice” in biblical history that, if fanned, can make us worthy of being called “religious.”  It is a bold book meant to dismember, in our hearts, the Bible’s tectonic plates."-Rabbi Susan Schnur, Psy.D., Senior Editor Emerita of Lilith Magazine. “The story of the conquest of Canaan under Joshua was weaponized by western Christian empires to colonize North America, South Africa, and Australia. The same story is being used today by Christian and Jewish Zionists as a blueprint to occupy Palestinian land and ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people. . . . Undoing Conquest provides a new liberating counter-interpretation from the perspective of an oppressed, yet innovative community. This book is an important read for anyone who is loo