Guerre and Shalom

Guerre and Shalom

Maish on Torah

The Prophet Who Hated Repentance

On the Morality of Forgiving the Purveyors of Evil

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Maish Yarmush and Daniel Clarke-Serret
Sep 20, 2026
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Sometimes the issue isn’t whether people will say sorry. It’s the justice of an apology from those who have committed unspeakable evil. The Assyrian Empire was the most brutal expansionist force of the Ancient Near East (see Christine Hayes of Yale). Even by the standards of its time, it was seen as a horrific entity; the nation that the later Book of N…

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