TY - BOOK AU - Kelle,Brad E. AU - Ames,Frank Ritchel ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Writing and reading war: rhetoric, gender, and ethics in biblical and modern contexts T2 - Society of Biblical Literature symposium series AV - BS1199.W2 W75 2008eb U1 - 221.8/35502 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Atlanta PB - Society of Biblical Literature KW - Bible KW - O.T KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - War KW - Religious aspects KW - Judaism KW - Biblical teaching KW - Rhetoric KW - Sex role KW - Jewish ethics KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10286062 ER -