The gendered language of warfare in the Israelite-Assyrian encounter - Chapman, Cynthia R., 1964- (Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2004)
Without rival : the royal performance of masculinity in Assyrian royal inscriptions and palace reliefs -- Daughter Zion : the gendered presentation of the Assyrian crisis in First Isaiah, Zephaniah, and Nahum -- From daughter to whore and back again : the transformation of the Jerusalem complex in the post-Assyrian period -- The fruits of comparison : a conversation between gendered texts.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-192) and indexes.
Keywords: Bible. -- Historiography; Jews -- History -- 953-586 B.C.; Syro-Ephraimitic War, ca. 734 B.C. -- Language; Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian; Relief (Sculpture), Ancient -- Assyria; Gender identity; Metaphor in the Bible; Jerusalem -- In the Bible