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001 2008038978
003 DLC
005 20130605080130.0
008 080904s2008 gaua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008038978
020 $a9781589833548 (paper binding : alk. paper)
020 $a1589833546 (paper binding : alk. paper)
020 $a9781589833982 (electronic library copy)
020 $a1589833988 (electronic library copy)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn246200057
035 $a(OCoLC)246200057
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBTCTA$dYDXCP$dC#P$dDLC
050 00 $aBS1199.W2$bW75 2008
082 00 $a221.8/35502$222
245 00 $aWriting and reading war :$brhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts /$cedited by Brad E. Kelle and Frank Ritchel Ames ; foreword by Susan Niditch.
260 $aAtlanta :$bSociety of Biblical Literature,$cc2008.
300 $axii, 265 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aSociety of Biblical Literature symposium series ;$vno. 42
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-240) and indexes.
505 0 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aWar$xReligious aspects$xJudaism.
650 0 $aWar$xBiblical teaching.
630 00 $aBible.$pOld Testament$xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
650 0 $aRhetoric$xReligious aspects$xJudaism.
650 0 $aSex role$xBiblical teaching.
650 0 $aJewish ethics.
700 1 $aKelle, Brad E.,$d1973-
700 1 $aAmes, Frank Ritchel.
830 0 $aSymposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ;$vno. 42.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0827/2008038978.html