Joshua

Moses is dead, but the Israelites continue raging about the ancient Middle East. This book contains the celebrated episode of the walls of Jericho, which I remember being taught at school, although I think they left out this bit:

And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

Genocide sanctioned by God. Charming.

The second half of Joshua covers the divvying up of land between the various tribes, and is very dull.