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portada War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
22.9x15.2x2.1 cm
Weight
0.60 kg.
ISBN13
9781108480895
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War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible

Jacob L. Wright (Author) · Cambridge University Press · Hardcover

War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible - Wright, Jacob L.

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Synopsis "War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible"

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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