rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts Kelle, Brad E. 1973- Ames, Frank Ritchel. text bibliography gau Atlanta Society of Biblical Literature c2008 2008 monographic eng

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xii, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 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. edited by Brad E. Kelle and Frank Ritchel Ames ; foreword by Susan Niditch. Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-240) and indexes. Criticism, interpretation, etc War Religious aspects Judaism War Biblical teaching Rhetoric Religious aspects Judaism Sex role Biblical teaching Jewish ethics BS1199.W2 W75 2008 221.8 Wri 2008 9781589833548 (paper binding : alk. paper) 1589833546 (paper binding : alk. paper) 1589833988 (electronic library copy) 2007015209 (paper back) DLC 150206 20250929181104.0 15438460