02884ctm a2200421 a 4500 15438460 OSt 20250929181104.0 ta 150206s2008 gaua b 001 0 eng 2007015209 (paper back) 9781589833548 (paper binding : alk. paper) 1589833546 (paper binding : alk. paper) 1589833988 (electronic library copy) (OCoLC)ocn246200057 (OCoLC)246200057 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP C#P DLC BS1199.W2 W75 2008 221.8 Wri 2008 22 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. Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2008. xii, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 42 Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-240) and indexes. 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. Bible. O.T. Criticism, interpretation, etc. War Religious aspects Judaism. War Biblical teaching. Rhetoric Religious aspects Judaism. Sex role Biblical teaching. Jewish ethics. Kelle, Brad E., 1973- Ames, Frank Ritchel. Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 42. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg BK ddc 16590 16590 0 0 0 0 EGSTL EGSTL CIRC 2025-03-09 0 221.8 Wri 2008 5541 2025-06-30 00:00:00 2025-03-09 BK