Writing and Reading War

Rhetoric, Gender, and Ethics in Biblical and Modern Contexts

• Author(s): Brad E. Kelle, Frank Ritchel Ames,
• Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
• Pages: 265
• ISBN_10: 1589833546
  ISBN_13: 9781589833548
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric , Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament , Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament , Religion / Biblical Studies / Old Testament / General , Religion / Ethics , Religion / Sexuality & Gender Studies , Religion / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict ,

Description:... 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.