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Writing and reading war [electronic resource] : rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts / edited by Brad E. Kelle and Frank Ritchel Ames ; foreword by Susan Niditch.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 42.
- Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 42
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- War.
- War--Biblical teaching.
- Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Rhetoric.
- Sex role--Biblical teaching.
- Sex role.
- Jewish ethics.
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 265 p. : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-240) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-58983-398-8
- OCLC:
- 922968020
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