War, memory, and national identity in the Hebrew Bible / Jacob L. Wright.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge University Press, Description: 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)ISBN: 9781108691512 (ebook)Subject(s): War -- Biblical teaching | War -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Jews -- Identity | Palestine -- In the Bible | Bible. Old Testament -- Socio-rhetorical criticism | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Nationalism and collective memory -- Israel | National characteristics, IsraeliAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 221.8/35502 LOC classification: BS680.W2 | W75 2020Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: The Hebrew Bible is permeated with depictions of military conflicts that have profoundly shaped the way many think about war. Why does war occupy so much space in the Bible? In this book, Jacob Wright offers a fresh and fascinating response to this question: War pervades the Bible not because ancient Israel was governed by religious factors (such as 'holy war') or because this people, along with its neighbors in the ancient Near East, was especially bellicose. The reason is rather that the Bible is fundamentally a project of constructing a new national identity for Israel, one that can both transcend deep divisions within the population and withstand military conquest by imperial armies. Drawing on the intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, Wright shows how biblical authors, like the architects of national identities from more recent times, constructed a new and influential notion of peoplehood in direct relation to memories of war, both real and imagined. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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| BR1307 .Y3613 1999 Essays on the Modern Japanese Church | BR1370 .B69 2018 The Stranger at the Feast | BS635.3 .M37 2007 The Land, the Bible, and History | BS680.W2 W75 2020 War, memory, and national identity in the Hebrew Bible / | BS1375.3 .S44 1994eb vol. 2 Vol. 2 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary | BS1375.3 .S44 1994eb vol. 3 Vol. 3 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary | BT40 .V7513 2005 Minimal Theologies |
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The Hebrew Bible is permeated with depictions of military conflicts that have profoundly shaped the way many think about war. Why does war occupy so much space in the Bible? In this book, Jacob Wright offers a fresh and fascinating response to this question: War pervades the Bible not because ancient Israel was governed by religious factors (such as 'holy war') or because this people, along with its neighbors in the ancient Near East, was especially bellicose. The reason is rather that the Bible is fundamentally a project of constructing a new national identity for Israel, one that can both transcend deep divisions within the population and withstand military conquest by imperial armies. Drawing on the intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, Wright shows how biblical authors, like the architects of national identities from more recent times, constructed a new and influential notion of peoplehood in direct relation to memories of war, both real and imagined. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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