Writing and Reading War : Rhetoric, Gender, and Ethics in Biblical and Modern Contexts

by Kelle, Brad E.; Ames, Frank Ritchel; Niditch, Susan

• ISBN13: 9789004137592
• ISBN10: 9004137599
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction	p. 1
Writing and Reading the Rhetoric of War
The Meaning of War: Definitions for the Study of War in Ancient Israelite Literature	p. 19
Military Valor and Kingship: A Book-Oriented Approach to the Study of a Major War Theme	p. 33
Fighting in Writing: Warfare in Histories of Ancient Israel	p. 57
Assyrian Military Practices and Deuteronomy's Laws of Warfare	p. 67
Assyrian Siege Warfare Imagery and the Background of a Biblical Curse	p. 83
Writing and Reading the Gender of War
Wartime Rhetoric: Prophetic Metaphorization of Cities as Female	p. 95
Family Metaphors and Social Conflict in Hosea	p. 113
"We Have Seen the Enemy, and He Is Only a 'She'": The Portrayal of Warriors as Women	p. 129
Writing and Reading the Ethics of War
Conquest Reconfigured: Recasting Warfare in the Redaction of Joshua	p. 145
"Go Back by the Way You Came": An Internal Textual Critique of Elijah's Violence in 1 Kings 18-19	p. 161
Shifts in Israelite War Ethics and Early Jewish Historiography of Plundering	p. 175
Gideon at Thermopylae? On the Militarization of Miracle in Biblical Narrative and "Battle Maps"	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 213
Contributors	p. 241
Index of Ancient Sources	p. 243
Index of Modern Authors	p. 257
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