Protest or propaganda : war in the Old Testament book of Kings and in contemporaneous ancient Near Eastern texts

Protest or propaganda : war in the Old Testament book of Kings and in contemporaneous ancient Near Eastern texts /

In this study, the war stories from the Old Testament book of "Kings" are compared to ten extrabiblical texts. Narratological analysis is applied to deconstruct the ideology of the respective literary compositions. The Old Testament ideology of war seems to be neither typically Israelite,...

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Main Author: Deijl, Aarnoud van der
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008
Series:Studia Semitica Neerlandica ; 51.
Subjects:
Bible. > Kings > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Kings > Extra-canonical parallels.
War > Biblical teaching.
Military history in the Bible.
Middle Eastern literature > Relation to the Old Testament.
War in literature.
Military art and science > Middle East > History.
Middle East > History > To 622.
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