Writing and reading war
Subtitle: rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts
By: edited by Brad E. Kelle and Frank Ritchel Ames.
Contributors: Kelle, Brad E., 1973-; Ames, Frank Ritchel.
Series: Society of Biblical Literature symposium series -- no. 42
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004137592
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; War -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; War -- Biblical teaching; Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Sex role -- Biblical teaching; Jewish ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The meaning of war: definitions for the study of war in ancient Israelite literature / Frank Ritchel Ames; title: Concepts of war in the Hebrew Bible: a plaidoyer for book-oriented study / Jacob L. Wright; title: Fighting in writing: warfare in histories of ancient Israel / Megan Bishop Moore; title: Assyrian military practices and Deuteronomy's laws of warfare / Michael G. Hasel; title: Siege warfare imagery and the background of a biblical curse / Jeremy D. Smoak; title: Wartime rhetoric: prophetic metaphorization of cities as female / Brad E. Kelle; title: Family metaphors and social conflict in Hosea / Alice A. Keefe; title: "We have seen the enemy, and he is only a 'she'": the portrayal of warriors as women / Claudia D. Bergmann; title: Conquest reconfigured: recasting warfare in the redaction of Joshua / Daniel Hawk; title: "Go back by the way you came": an internal textual critique of Elijah's violence in 1 Kings 18-19 / Frances Flannery; title: Shifts in Israelite war ethics and early Jewish historiography of plundering / Brian Kvasnica; title: Gideon at Thermopylae?: on the militarization of miracle in biblical narrative and "battle maps" / Daniel l. Smith-Christopher.