Research Catalog

Title

Worship, women, and war : essays in honor of Susan Niditch / edited by John J. Collins, T.M. Lemos, Saul M. Olyan.

Publication

• Providence, Rhode Island : Brown University, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946-
• Olyan, Saul M.
• Lemos, T. M. (Tracy Maria)

Description

xvi, 320 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Brown Judaic studies ; v. 357

Uniform Title

Brown Judaic studies ; v. 357.

Subject

• Niditch, Susan, honoree
• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Folklore in the Bible
• War > Biblical teaching
• Gender identity in the Bible
• Women in the Bible
• Jews > Palestine > Civilization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Selected publications of Susan Niditch (pages xiii-xvi).

Contents

I. Folklore, mythology and oral history. The passing of warrior poetry in the era of prosaic heroes ; The fugitive hero narrative pattern in Mesopotamia ; Ending a performance: the tenants in Luke 20:9-19 and Gospel of Thomas 65 ; A story about some stories ; The Gospel of Mark: baptism and Passover initiation ; Orality and writing in the creation of Exilic prophetic literature -- II. Israelite religion and ancient Judaism. Massebot standing for Yhwh: the fall of Yhwistic cult symbol ; "The righteous mind" and Judean moral culture: a conversation between biblical studies and moral psychology ; Ritual inversion in biblical representations of puntitive rites -- III. Warfare and violence. Moral injury and the interdisciplinary study of biblical war texts: the case of King Saul ; Collateral duties: military objectives and civilian protections in Deuteronomy ; The agonistic imagination: the ethics of war in Deuteronomy ; Rahab's valor and the Gibeonites' cowardice -- IV. Gender. The women of the Bible and of ancient Near Eastern myth: the case of the Levite's [pilegeš] ; Were Israelite women chattel? Shedding new light on an old question ; Crossings, transgressions, and movement in the Jephthah cycle ; Ruth's beginnings: a study in contradictions ; Building power: gender, identity, and conspicuous consumption in Fin de Siècle Tang China ; Rufina refined: a woman archisynagōgos from Smyrna, yet again.

Call Number

*PYI 16-222

ISBN

• 9781930675933
• 1930675933
• 9781930675971
• 1930675976

LCCN

2015021982

OCLC

910914748

Title

Worship, women, and war : essays in honor of Susan Niditch / edited by John J. Collins, T.M. Lemos, Saul M. Olyan.

Publisher

Providence, Rhode Island : Brown University, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Brown Judaic studies ; v. 357

Brown Judaic studies ; v. 357.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Selected publications of Susan Niditch (pages xiii-xvi).

Added Author

Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946- editor.

Olyan, Saul M., editor.

Lemos, T. M. (Tracy Maria), editor.

Research Call Number

*PYI 16-222