War, memory, and national identity in the Hebrew Bible

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Tác giả: Jacob L Wright

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-1108480895

ISBN: 9781108691512 (ebook)

ISBN: 9781108703376 (paperback)

Ký hiệu phân loại: 221.835502 Old Testament (Tanakh)

Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 159029

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.
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