Joshua And The Rhetoric Of Violence

Author : Lori L. Rowlett
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567383167

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Joshua and the Rhetoric of Violence by Lori L. Rowlett Pdf

'Joshua and the Rhetoric of Violence' examines the book of Joshua as a construction of national identity. This pioneering New Historicist analysis shows how the Deuteronomist used war oracle language and epic historical lore to negotiate sociopolitical boundaries. It asserts that text and context interacted in a programme consolidating King Josiah's authority in the wake of Assyrian imperial collapse. The book argues that the conquest narrative is not simple 'us against them' propaganda but a complex web of negotiations defining identity and otherness. The analysis draws on Foucault's principle that power is something exercised rather than merely possessed.

Author : L. L. Rowlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:78352432

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The Rhetoric of Violence in the Conquest Narrative by L. L. Rowlett Pdf

Author : M. Daniel Carroll R.,J. Wilgus
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068312

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Wrestling with the Violence of God by M. Daniel Carroll R.,J. Wilgus Pdf

The prevalence of evil and violence in the world is a growing focus of scholarly attention, especially violence done in the name of religion and violence found within the pages of the Old Testament. Many atheists consider this reason enough to reject the notion of a supreme deity. Some Christians attempt to exonerate God by reinterpreting problematic passages or by prioritizing portrayals of God’s nonviolence. Other Christians have begun to respond to violence in the Old Testament by questioning the nature of the text itself, though not rejecting belief in a good God. Wrestling with the Violence of God: Soundings in the Old Testament is a response to these challenging issues. The chapters in this volume present empathetic, holistic, and methodologically responsible readings of the Old Testament as Christian Scripture. Contributors from different nationalities, religious traditions, and educational institutions come together to address representative biblical material that depicts violence. Chapters address explicit portrayals of divine violence, human responses to violence of God and violence in the world, alternative understandings of supposedly violent texts, and a hopeful future in which violence is no more. Rather than attempt to offer a conclusive answer to the issue, this volume constructively contributes to the ongoing discussion.

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621893356

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Divine Presence amid Violence by Walter Brueggemann Pdf

"To pursue the matter of "revelation in context," I will address an exceedingly difficult text in the Old Testament, Joshua 11. The reason for taking up this text is to deal with the often asked and troublesome question: What shall we do with all the violence and bloody war that is done in the Old Testament in the name of Yahweh? The question reflects a sense that these texts of violence are at least an embarrassment, are morally repulsive, and are theologically problematic in the Bible, not because they are violent, but because this is violence either in the name of or at the hand of Yahweh." -from chapter 2

Author : Adriane Leveen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351785556

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Biblical Narratives of Israelites and Their Neighbors by Adriane Leveen Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1 The wilderness journey and its end -- 2 Inside out: Jethro and the Midianites -- 3 Crossing over and settling the land -- Part 2 Living in the land -- 4 Enemies in the borderlands -- 5 Warriors and kings -- 6 Solomon and his neighbors -- Part 3 Unsettled in the land -- 7 "My father was a fugitive Aramaean"--8 Strangers at the gate -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : Common, Kate
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798888660164

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Undoing Conquest by Common, Kate Pdf

Author : John J. Collins
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781506446448

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Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Third Edition - The Deuteronomistic History by John J. Collins Pdf

John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments. The third edition is presented in a new and engaging format with new maps and images. An index has been added to the volume for the first time. In order to enhance classroom use, Collins's major text has now been divided into four volumes, one for each major part of the Hebrew Bible. This volume focuses on the Deuteronomistic History. Here, Collins explores the books of Joshua through 2 Kings, the main account of Israel's history. The volume also contains the introduction to Collins's major text and is now available with even more student-friendly features, including charts, maps, photographs, chapter summaries, and bibliographies for further reading. Collins presents the current state of historical, archaeological, and literary understandings of the biblical text and engages the student in questions of significance and interpretation for the contemporary world.

Author : Matthew Lynch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108494359

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Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible by Matthew Lynch Pdf

Examines four key ways that writers of the Hebrew Bible conceptualize and critique acts of violence.

Author : A. L. Jones
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780739190975

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The Gender Vendors by A. L. Jones Pdf

Among numerous ancient Western tropes about gender and procreation, “the seed and the soil” is arguably the oldest, most potent, and most invisible in its apparent naturalness. The Gender Vendors denaturalizes this proto-theory of procreation and deconstructs its contemporary legacy. As metaphor for gender and procreation, seed-and-soil constructs the father as the sole generating parent and the mother as nurturing medium, like soil, for the man’s seed-child. In other words, men give life; women merely give birth. The Gender Vendors examines seed-and-soil in the context of the psychology of gender, honor and chastity codes, female genital mutilation, the taboo on male femininity, femiphobia (the fear of being feminine or feminized), sexual violence, institutionalized abuse, the early modern witch hunts, the medicalization and criminalization of gender nonconformity, and campaigns against women’s rights. The examination is structured around particular watersheds in the history of seed-and-soil, for example, Genesis, ancient Greece, early Christianity, the medieval Church, the early modern European witch hunts, and the campaigns of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries against women’s suffrage and education. The neglected story of seed-and-soil matters to everyone who cares about gender equality and why it is taking so long to achieve.

Author : Michael Andrew Kelly,Mark A. O'Brien
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1920691294

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Wisdom for Life by Michael Andrew Kelly,Mark A. O'Brien Pdf

This volume draws on scholars froma variety of theological disciplines - scripture, history, systematic theology The essays are designed to encourage readers to become more critically reflective as they engage with biblical texts and contemporary concerns.

Author : Marvin A. Sweeney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198030525

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King Josiah of Judah by Marvin A. Sweeney Pdf

King Josiah of Judah is a figure of extraordinary importance for the history of Israel. Using synchronic and diachronic analyses of the Deuteronomistic History, Deuteronomy, and selected prophetic books, Marvin Sweeney reconstructs the ideological perspectives of King Josiah's program of religious and national restoration.

Author : Yigal Levin,Amnon Shapira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136625121

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War and Peace in Jewish Tradition by Yigal Levin,Amnon Shapira Pdf

The transition between the reality of war and a hope for peace has accompanied the Jewish people since biblical times. However, the ways in which both concepts are understood have changed many times over the ages, and both have different implications for an independent nation in its own land than they do for a community of exiles living as a minority in foreign countries. This book explores the concepts of war and peace throughout the history of Judaism. Combining three branches of learning - classical Jewish sources, from the Bible to modern times; related academic disciplines of Jewish studies, humanities, social and political sciences; and public discussion of these issues on political, military, ideological and moral levels - contributors from Israel and the USA open new vistas of investigation for the future as well as an awareness of the past. Chapters touch on personal and collective morality in warfare, survival though a long and often violent history, and creation of some of the world’s great cultural assets, in literature, philosophy and religion, as well as in the fields of community life and social autonomy. An important addition to the current literature on Jewish thought and philosophy, this book will be of considerable interest to scholars working in the areas of Jewish Studies, theology, modern politics, the Middle East and biblical studies.

Author : Gershom M. H. Ratheiser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567072764

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Mitzvoth Ethics and the Jewish Bible by Gershom M. H. Ratheiser Pdf

Ratheiser's study provides the framework for a non-confessional, mitzvoth ethics-centered and historical-philological approach to the Jewish bible and deals with the basic steps of an alternative paradigmatic perspective on the biblical text. The author seeks to demostrate the ineptness of confessional and ahistorical approaches to the Jewish bible. Based on his observations and his survey of the history of interpretation of the Jewish bible, Ratheiser introduces an alternative hermeneutical-exegetical approach to the Jewish bible: the paradigm of examples. His study concludes that the biblical text is a collection of writings designed and formed from a specifically ethical-ethnic outlook. In other words, he regards the Jewish bible to be written as an etiology of ancient instruction by ancient Jews to Jews and for Jews. As such, it serves as a religious-ethical identity marker that provides ancient Jews and their descendants with an etiology of Jewish life. Ratheiser regards this religious-ethical agenda to have been the driving force in the minds of the final editors/compilers of the biblical text as we have it today.

Author : Saul M. Olyan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190249588

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Ritual Violence in the Hebrew Bible by Saul M. Olyan Pdf

"This volume is intended to bring into relief the full range of violent rites represented in the Hebrew Bible many rarely, if ever, consider. It seeks to explore what acts of ritual violence might accomplish socio-politically in their particular settings and the ways in which engagement with theory from a variety of disciplines can contribute to our understanding of ritual violence as a phenomenon"--

Author : Linda S. Schearing,Steven L. McKenzie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567563361

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Those Elusive Deuteronomists by Linda S. Schearing,Steven L. McKenzie Pdf

As recent scholarship dates Hebrew Bible materials later and later, the Deuteronomistic History has grown in importance. Viewed as the original, earliest document of the Hebrew Scriptures, it is credited with influencing (formally or informally) almost every level of the Hebrew Bible's composition. The 13 essays in this book include articles by N. Lohfink, A.G. Auld, J. Blenkinsopp, R.J. Coggins, J. Crenshaw, J. Van Seters and R.R. Wilson, as well as outstanding articles by newer scholars in the field. All address the question of whether or not the claims made by the pervasive pan-deuteronomism movement sweeping the discipline can, in fact, be verified.