Jacob L. Wright

War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Shows how biblical authors, like more recent architects of national identities, constructed identity in direct relation to memories of war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108575898
• Artikelnr.: 70910666

Autorenporträt

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.