An edition of Writing and reading war (2008)

Writing and reading war

rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts

Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today


Buy this book

Last edited by ImportBot
February 2, 2023 | History
An edition of Writing and reading war (2008)

Writing and reading war

rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts

This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?

Publish Date
Publisher
Brill
Language
English

Buy this book

Book Details


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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Boston
Series
Society of Biblical Literature symposium series -- no. 42

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
221.8/35502
Library of Congress
BS1199.W2 W75 2008b, BS1199.W2W75 2008b

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22515283M
ISBN 13
9789004137592
LCCN
2008038966
OCLC/WorldCat
246198980
Goodreads
6892217

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
February 2, 2023 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
August 1, 2020 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
February 10, 2019 Created by MARC Bot import existing book