Writing and reading war : rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts /
War is not only waged on the battlefield, but is written and read in contexts that influence meaning and reception. The essays in this collection examine how ancient Israelites wrote about war and how war-related texts in the Hebrew Bible have been read in ancient and modern contexts. They explore w...
| Други автори: | Kelle, Brad E., 1973-, Ames, Frank Ritchel. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Atlanta :
Society of Biblical Literature,
℗♭2008.
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| Серия: |
Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ;
no. 42. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=272006 |
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Writing and reading war. |
Съдържание:
- The meaning of war : definitions for the study of war in ancient Israelite literature / Frank Ritchel Ames
- Military valor and kingship : a book-oriented approach to the study of a major war theme / Jacob L. Wright
- Fighting in writing : warfare in histories of ancient Israel / Megan Bishop Moore
- Assyrian military practices and Deuteronomy's laws of warfare / Michael G. Hasel
- Assyrian siege warfare imagery and the background of a biblical curse / Jeremy D. Smoak
- Wartime rhetoric : prophetic metaphorization of cities as female / Brad E. Kelle
- Family metaphors and social conflict in Hosea / Alice A. Keefe
- "We have seen the enemy, and he is only a 'she'" : the portrayal of warriors as women / Claudia D. Bergmann
- Conquest reconfigured : recasting warfare in the redaction of Joshua / L. Daniel Hawk
- "Go back by the way you came" : an internal textual critique of Elijah's violence in 1 Kings 18-19 / Frances Flannery
- Shifts in Israelite war ethics and early Jewish historiography of plundering / Brian Kvasnica
- Gideon at Thermopylae? : on the militarization of miracle in biblical narrative and "battle maps" / Daniel L. Smith-Christopher.