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.
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.
Jacob L. Wright is a professor at Emory University in the Candler School of Theology. He writes on a wide array of topics, ranging from material culture to commensality and urbicide. His first book, Rebuilding Identity (De Gruyter, 2003), won the Templeton Prize, and his most recent book, David, King of Israel (Cambridge University Press, 2014), won the ASOR Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award. His free online course (The Bible's Prehistory, Purpose, and Political Future) consistently ranks among the top online courses in the humanities.
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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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