Writing and reading war : rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts / / edited by Brad E. Kelle and Frank Ritchel Ames ; foreword by Susan Niditch.
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| Superior document: | Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 42 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ;
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| Physical Description: | xii, 265 p. :; ill. |
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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.