Writing and reading war rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Kelle, Brad E., 1973-, Ames, Frank Ritchel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2008.
Series:Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 42.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • The 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.