{"product_id":"war-memory-and-national-identity-in-the-hebrew-bible-hardback-9781108480895","title":"War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible (Hardback) 9781108480895","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWar, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShows how biblical authors, like more recent architects of national identities, constructed identity in direct relation to memories of war.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJacob L. Wright (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108480895, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 July 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e350 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.4 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The book is a welcome follow-up to the author's previous volume (David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory) [Cambridge, 2014] … The highlight of the work, however, is its thoroughgoing interdisciplinary character. Wright has provided an exemplar of the interdisciplinary study that should mark today's engagements with biblical warfare texts. This interdisciplinarity includes engagement with political theory and philosophy, sociology, anthropology, classical Greek literature, and international law. Readers of this monograph will find both a compelling technical approach to specific biblical texts and an invitation to a broader social and cultural conversation much needed in our time.' Brad E. Kelle, Society Of Biblical Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart 1. Refugee Memories: Negotiating Relations and Borders to Neighboring States\u003cbr\u003e 1. Passages to Peace\u003cbr\u003e 2. Edom as Israel's Other\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Kinship and Commandment: The Transjordanian Tribes and the Conquest of Canaan\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mapping the Promised Land\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Nation's Transjordanian Vanguard\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Nation Beyond Its Borders\u003cbr\u003e 6. Kinship, Law, and Narrative\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Rahab: An Archetypal Outsider\u003cbr\u003e 7. Between Faith and Works\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Composition of the Rahab Story\u003cbr\u003e 9. Rahab's Courage and the Gibeonites' Cowardice\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. Deborah: Mother of a Voluntary Nation\u003cbr\u003e 10. A Prophet and Her General\u003cbr\u003e 11. A Poetic War Monument\u003cbr\u003e 12. A National Anthem for the North\u003cbr\u003e 13. Women and War Commemoration\u003cbr\u003e 14. Jael's Identities.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], Jewish studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Jewish studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Jewish%20studies%20%5BJFSR1%5D%22\"\u003eJFSR1\u003c\/a\u003e], Judaism: theology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Judaism: theology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Judaism:%20theology%20%5BHRJT%5D%22\"\u003eHRJT\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266360987928,"sku":"9781108480895","price":70.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108480895i.jpg?v=1696706085","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/war-memory-and-national-identity-in-the-hebrew-bible-hardback-9781108480895","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}