Writing and reading war : rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts /
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.
- Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2008.
- xii, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 42 .
- Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 42. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-240) 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.
9781589833548 (paper binding : alk. paper) 1589833546 (paper binding : alk. paper) 1589833988 (electronic library copy)
2007015209 (paper back)
Bible.--O.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
War--Religious aspects--Judaism.
War--Biblical teaching.
Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Sex role--Biblical teaching.
Jewish ethics.
BS1199.W2 / W75 2008
221.8 Wri 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-240) 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.
9781589833548 (paper binding : alk. paper) 1589833546 (paper binding : alk. paper) 1589833988 (electronic library copy)
2007015209 (paper back)
Bible.--O.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
War--Religious aspects--Judaism.
War--Biblical teaching.
Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Sex role--Biblical teaching.
Jewish ethics.
BS1199.W2 / W75 2008
221.8 Wri 2008