Tag: Amalekites
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01 Work, The art of War, Nicolas Poussin’s The Victory of Joshua over the Amalekites, with Footnotes
The Amalekites, descendants of Amalek, were an ancient biblical nation living near the land of Canaan. They were the first nation to attack the Jewish people after the Exodus from Egypt, and they are seen as the archetypal enemy of the Jews. Joshua was successor to Moses, who led the Israelites through the Desert and…