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Writing and reading war

rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts

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Rhetoric, Bible, Judaism, Biblical teaching, Sex role, Criticism, interpretation, Jewish ethics, War, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., o. t. apocryphal books, War, religious aspects
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Table of Contents

The meaning of war: definitions for the study of war in ancient Israelite literature / Frank Ritchel Ames
Concepts of war in the Hebrew Bible: a plaidoyer for book-oriented study / 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
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 / 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Society of Biblical Literature symposium series -- no. 42

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221.8/35502
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BS1199.W2 W75 2008b, BS1199.W2W75 2008b

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OL22515283M
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9789004137592
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2008038966
OCLC/WorldCat
246198980
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6892217

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