Because the Jews and the Romans both created atrocity propaganda and exaggerated the negative traits of their enemies. The Spanish later did it, too.Hi.
I would not even have mentioned it but you are the one who said it was just Roman propaganda. Now apparently you see that their was something "particular" about the caananite belief system that bothered the sensibilities of the Romans and Greeks as well as the Jews. So did you know this or not, if your not surprised why try and run over the point by playing the propaganda card at all? We could have expanded on shared knowledge and insights instead of this back and forth.
We've come a long way from your initial position to a place where the only aberration, and as i pointed out you misunderstood that, is the slaughter of animals and the not taking of plunder. Everything else seems to be in line with the operation of the surrounding polities.
Oh ....... and the Jews thought they were superior.
We could always compare them with the Assyrian's and the way their gods directed things to see what true barbarity looks like in the Bronze age.
Peace.
Were the Assyrians commanded to commit genocide, too?