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"Remember Amalek!" Vengeance, Zealotry, and Group Destruction in the Bible According to Philo, Pseudo-Philo, and Josephus, by Louis H. Feldman. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2004. 272 pp. $34.95.

Professor Louis Feldman opens his excellent work with critical questions in the ethics of war: How could a merciful God desire to exterminate all Amalekites as commanded in 1 Sam 15:3? How did some of the early thinkers in Jewish intellectual history make sense of such a command: the hellenistic philosopher Philo who died c. 50 CE; so-called Pseudo-Philo, the ...

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