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Author : Gerhard von Rad,Marva J. Dawn,Ben C. Ollenburger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0852442084
Author : Gerhard von Rad
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579103460
Since the beginning, holy war has been viewed as a 'sacred institution' and a 'cultic act of religious community' by the people of Israel. Appearing here in English for the first time, Gerhard von Rad has provided a definitive study of the theory of holy war and its development throughout biblical history. Von Rad gives a definitive and articulate exposition of a typically disturbing theme within the Old Testament, arguing that holy war is not only Yahweh acting alone, but inspired Israelites, who because they envisioned God fighting on their behalf, felt obligated and inspired to fight even more fervently.
Author : Heath A. Thomas,Jeremy A. Evans,Paul Copan
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830839957
The first of its kind, this collection offers a constructive response to the question of holy war and Christian morality from an interdisciplinary perspective. By combining biblical, ethical, philosophical and theological insights, the contributors offer a composite image of divine redemption that promises to take the discussion to another level.
Author : Reuven Firestone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199977154
Holy war, sanctioned or even commanded by God, is a common and recurring theme in the Hebrew Bible. Rabbinic Judaism, however, largely avoided discussion of holy war in the Talmud and related literatures for the simple reason that it became dangerous and self-destructive. Reuven Firestone's Holy War in Judaism is the first book to consider how the concept of ''holy war'' disappeared from Jewish thought for almost 2000 years, only to reemerge with renewed vigor in modern times. The revival of the holy war idea occurred with the rise of Zionism. As the necessity of organized Jewish engagement in military actions developed, Orthodox Jews faced a dilemma. There was great need for all to engage in combat for the survival of the infant state of Israel, but the Talmudic rabbis had virtually eliminated divine authorization for Jews to fight in Jewish armies. Once the notion of divinely sanctioned warring was revived, it became available to Jews who considered that the historical context justified more aggressive forms of warring. Among some Jews, divinely authorized war became associated not only with defense but also with a renewed kibbush or conquest, a term that became central to the discourse regarding war and peace and the lands conquered by the state of Israel in 1967. By the early 1980's, the rhetoric of holy war had entered the general political discourse of modern Israel. In Holy War in Judaism, Firestone identifies, analyzes, and explains the historical, conceptual, and intellectual processes that revived holy war ideas in modern Judaism.
Author : Brad Kelle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472810304
Complex and unstable, in 922 BC the kingdom of Ancient Israel was divided into Judah, in the South, and Israel, in the North. For the next 200 years, there was almost constant warring between these kingdoms and their neighbors. These bitter feuds eventually led to the collapse of Israel, leaving Judah as a surviving nation until the emergence of the Babylonian Empire, the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC, and the exile of the Judean people. Using ancient Jewish, Biblical, and other contemporary sources, this title examines the politics, fighting, and consequences of Israel's battles during this period. Focusing on the turbulent relationship between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, this book explains Israel's complex, often bloody, foreign policy, and provides a definitive history of these ancient conflicts.
Author : Duane L. Christensen
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042757214
In this reprint of the revised edition of his well known Harvard dissertation, the author traces the historical development of the oracle against a foreign nation from its origin in the early military traditions of Israel down to its refinement as a form of prophetic speech. Christensen begins with early material related to oracular divination and moves chronologically through Israelite history down to the early sixth century BCE, observing in the process two major transformations of the war oracle.
Author : Susan Niditch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06-29
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780195356915
Texts about war pervade the Hebrew Bible, raising challenging questions in religious and political ethics. The war passages that readers find most disquieting are those in which God demands the total annihilation of the enemy without regard to gender, age, or military status. The ideology of the "ban," however, is only one among a range of attitudes towards war preserved in the ancient Israelite literary tradition. Applying insights from anthropology, comparative literature, and feminist studies, Niditch considers a wide spectrum of war ideologies in the Hebrew Bible, seeking in each case to discover why and how these views might have made sense to biblical writers, who themselves can be seen to wrestle with the ethics of violence. The study of war thus also illuminates the social and cultural history of Israel, as war texts are found to map the world views of biblical writers from various periods and settings. Reviewing ways in which modern scholars have interpreted this controversial material, Niditch sheds further light on the normative assumptions that shape our understanding of ancient Israel. More widely, this work explores how human beings attempt to justify killing and violence while concentrating on the tones, textures, meanings, and messages of a particular corpus in the Hebrew Scriptures.
Author : Chaim Herzog,Mordechai Gichon
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0760776261
-- Examines the Bible's military accounts -- Explores the tactics and strategy of ancient armies -- First paperback publication, complete with all illustrationsIn Battles of the Bible Chaim Herzog, former President of the State of Israel, and Mordechai Gichon, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, present a comprehensive work on the wars of ancient Israel. Both authors have seen extensive military service in the region which features in biblical accounts.The Bible covers a vast period of military history, from the invasion of Canaan by Joshua's Israelites, through the conquest of the kingdom by David and Solomon and the split of the kingdom into Judah and Israel, to the Maccabees' rebellion against Seleucid domination. The reliability of these accounts is supported by their technical accuracy and by descriptions of topographic conditions. They provide strategic and tactical lessons still applicable today and are a key to understanding the wider history of the region.Battles of the Bible is a fascinating and valuable work, not only for its exacting scrutiny, but also for its insight into the relevance of biblical accounts and their continuing value.
Author : Emma Wasserman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780300204025
A reassessment of early Christian apocalypticism arguing that the texts are not so much myths about good versus evil as about divine politics and heroic submission Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that in a world that rebels against God, a cataclysmic battle between good and evil is needed to reassert God's dominion. Emma Wasserman, a rising scholar of early Christian history, challenges this interpretation and reframes these apocalyptic texts as myths about divine politics and heroic submission. A major scholarly contribution that ranges across Mediterranean and West Asian religious thought, this volume rethinks Paul's Christ-myth as well as his most distinctive ethical teachings.
Author : Sa-Moon Kang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110884920
The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.
Author : Chaim Herzog,Mordechai Gichon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040988738
'Battles of the Bible' presents a comprehensive and illuminating account of the wars of ancient Israel. This is a fascinating and valuable work, not only for its exacting scrutiny of the biblical accounts, but also for its insight into their wider and continuing relevance. This new, thoroughly revised edition takes into account current historical and archaeological research, as well as modern trends in biblical scholarship.
Author : John A. Wood
Publisher : Sweet & Maxwell
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0865545642
Perspectives on War in the Bible offers a comprehensive study of varying traditions of war in the Bible. The author examines the traditional categories of holy war, just war, and pacifism to show that people then, as now, were sharply divided.4
Author : Patrick D. Miller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004385887
Author : Alfred J. Andrea,Andrew Holt
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624669620
"This rich and engaging book looks at instances of sanctified violence, the holy wars related to religion. It covers it all, from ancient to present day, including examples of warfare among Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists, as well as Christians, Jews and Muslims. It is a comprehensive and readable overview that provides a lively introduction to the subject of holy war in its broadest sense—as ‘sanctified violence’ in the service of a god or ideology. It is certain to be a useful companion in the classroom, and a boon to anyone fascinated by the dark attraction of religion and violence." —Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara Contents: Introduction: What Is Holy War? Chapter 1: Holy Wars in Mythic Time, Holy Wars as Metaphor, Holy Wars as RitualChapter 2: Holy Wars of Conquest in the Name of a DeityChapter 3: Holy Wars in Defense of the SacredChapter 4: Holy Wars in Anticipation of the Millennium Epilogue: Holy Wars Today and Tomorrow Also included are a description of the Critical Themes in World History series, Preface, index, and suggestions for further reading.
Author : Brad E. Kelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Palestine
ISBN : 1472895045
"Complex and unstable, in 922 BC the kingdom of Ancient Israel was divided into Judah, in the South, and Israel, in the North. For the next 200 years, there was almost constant warring between these kingdoms and their neighbors. These bitter feuds eventually led to the collapse of Israel, leaving Judah as a surviving nation until the emergence of the Babylonian Empire, the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC, and the exile of the Judean people. Using ancient Jewish, Biblical, and other contemporary sources, this title examines the politics, fighting, and consequences of Israel's battles during this period. Focusing on the turbulent relationship between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, this book explains Israel's complex, often bloody, foreign policy, and provides a definitive history of these ancient conflicts."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
