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War, memory, and national identity in the Hebrew Bible /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	War, memory, and national identity in the Hebrew Bible // Jacob L. Wright.
Author:	Wright, Jacob L.,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Aug 2020).
Subject:	War - Biblical teaching. -
Subject:	Palestine - Kings and rulers. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108691512
ISBN:	9781108691512 (ebook)

War, memory, and national identity in the Hebrew Bible /
Wright, Jacob L.,

War, memory, and national identity in the Hebrew Bible /Jacob L. Wright. - 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Aug 2020).

Open Access title.

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.

ISBN: 9781108691512 (ebook)Subjects--Uniform Titles:

Bible.
--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1012692
War
--Biblical teaching.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

801845
Palestine
--Kings and rulers.

LC Class. No.: BS680.W2 / W75 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 221.8/35502

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