A biblical war prefigures the modern First World War in structure

Evidence

On to the first war, then. It is a remarkable war, not to say that it is the war, the true mother of all wars, the first war of the world, of the biblical world, at least, and thus the First World War. As I have said, it is not only the first war narrated by the Bible (where already “the entire state is under arms and is torn from its domestic life at home to fight abroad,” where “the war of defense turns into a war of conquest,” Hegel, Philosophy of Right, 211), it is also the first occasion for Abraham’s “conquest of the land” (”Abram conquiert la terre” is the title that the French translator, Andre Chouraqui, gives to this section). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 317