War, memory, and national identity in the Hebrew Bible

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War, memory, and national identity in the Hebrew Bible

Jacob L. Wright

Cambridge University Press, 2020

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-268) and indexes

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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.

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