War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible

ISBN-13: 9781108480895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 350 str.

Atlanta) Jacob L. Wright (Emory University

Opis

Drawing on the intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, the book shows that war pervades the pages of the Bible because its authors were engaged in an effort to forge a corporate identity for Israel, one that can both transcend deep divisions within the population and withstand military conquest by imperial armies.

Recenzje

'This monograph is impressively erudite as well as densely written, citing widely from a plethora of ancient and more recent sources. For all this, it is also readable and enjoyable.' Johanna Stiebert, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Spis treści

Part 1. Refugee Memories: Negotiating Relations and Borders to Neighboring States; 1. Passages to Peace; 2. Edom as Israel's Other; Part 2. Kinship and Commandment: The Transjordanian Tribes and the Conquest of Canaan; 3. Mapping the Promised Land; 4. The Nation's Transjordanian Vanguard; 5. A Nation Beyond Its Borders; 6. Kinship, Law, and Narrative; Part 3. Rahab: An Archetypal Outsider; 7. Between Faith and Works; 8. The Composition of the Rahab Story; 9. Rahab's Courage and the Gibeonites' Cowardice; Part 4. Deborah: Mother of a Voluntary Nation; 10. A Prophet and Her General; 11. A Poetic War Monument; 12. A National Anthem for the North; 13. Women and War Commemoration; 14. Jael's Identities.