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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Olyan, Saul M., editor.

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

Series:

Brown Judaic studies ; v. 357.

Brown Judaic studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Niditch, Susan honouree., honouree.

Niditch, Susan.

Folklore in the Bible.

War--Biblical teaching.

War.

Gender identity in the Bible.

Women in the Bible.

Jews--Palestine--Civilization.

Jews.

Civilization.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvi, 320 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island : Brown University, [2015]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

ISBN:

9781930675933

1930675933

9781930675971

1930675976

OCLC:

910914748