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War in the Hebrew Bible : a study in the ethics of violence /

Dealing with a wide spectrum of war ideologies in the Hebrew Bible, this study seeks to discover why and how these views might have made sense to biblical writers. It challenges the stereotype of the "violent" Old Testament.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Niditch, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Edición:New ed.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Ban as God's Portion
  • 2. The Ban as God's Justice
  • 3. The Priestly Ideology of War in Numbers 31
  • 4. The Bardic Tradition of War
  • 5. The Ideology of Tricksterism
  • 6. The Ideology of Expediency and Biblical Critique
  • 7. Toward an Ideology of Nonparticipation
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Additional Readings
  • Index of Biblical Citations
  • General Index.