Writing and reading war  rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts /  [electronic resource] : 
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 .
 - Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ;  no. 42. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-240) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2009. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>War--Religious aspects--Judaism.<br/>War--Biblical teaching.<br/>Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Judaism.<br/>Sex role--Biblical teaching.<br/>Jewish ethics.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS1199.W2  / W75 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>221.8/35502