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Writing and reading war : rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts
- Title
- Writing and reading war : rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts / edited by Brad E. Kelle and Frank Ritchel Ames ; foreword by Susan Niditch.
- Publication
- Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BS1199.W2 W75 2008 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xii, 265 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 42
- Uniform Title
- Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 42.
- Subject
- Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Bible
- Bibel
- Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc
- War > Religious aspects > Judaism
- War > Biblical teaching
- Rhetoric > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Sex role > Biblical teaching
- Jewish ethics
- Jewish ethics
- Rhetoric > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Sex role > Biblical teaching
- War > Biblical teaching
- War > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Geschlechterrolle
- Jüdische Ethik
- Krieg
- Gender roles
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-240) and indexes.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781589833548
- 1589833546
- 9781589833982
- 1589833988
- LCCN
- 2008038978
- OCLC
- ocn246200057
- 246200057
- SCSB-1507010
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library