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.
Contributor(s): Kelle, Brad E
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TextSeries: Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature): no. 42.Publisher: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781589833548 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1589833546 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): War -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | War -- Biblical teaching | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | Sex role -- Biblical teaching | Jewish ethicsDDC classification: 221.8/35502 LOC classification: BS1199.W2 | W75 2008Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.