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Worship, women, and war : essays in honor of Susan Niditch / edited by John J. Collins, T.M. Lemos, Saul M. Olyan. - 1 online resource (xvi, 320 pages) - Brown Judaic studies ; number 357 . - Brown Judaic studies ; no. 357. .

Selected publications of Susan Niditch (pages xiii-xvi). Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

I. Folklore, mythology and oral history. The passing of warrior poetry in the era of prosaic heroes ; The fugitive hero narrative pattern in Mesopotamia ; Ending a performance: the tenants in Luke 20:9-19 and Gospel of Thomas 65 ; A story about some stories ; The Gospel of Mark: baptism and Passover initiation ; Orality and writing in the creation of Exilic prophetic literature -- II. Israelite religion and ancient Judaism. Massebot standing for Yhwh: the fall of Yhwistic cult symbol ; "The righteous mind" and Judean moral culture: a conversation between biblical studies and moral psychology ; Ritual inversion in biblical representations of puntitive rites -- III. Warfare and violence. Moral injury and the interdisciplinary study of biblical war texts: the case of King Saul ; Collateral duties: military objectives and civilian protections in Deuteronomy ; The agonistic imagination: the ethics of war in Deuteronomy ; Rahab's valor and the Gibeonites' cowardice -- IV. Gender. The women of the Bible and of ancient Near Eastern myth: the case of the Levite's [pileges] ; Were Israelite women chattel? Shedding new light on an old question ; Crossings, transgressions, and movement in the Jephthah cycle ; Ruth's beginnings: a study in contradictions ; Building power: gender, identity, and conspicuous consumption in Fin de Siècle Tang China ; Rufina refined: a woman archisynagogos from Smyrna, yet again.

Celebrate the career of an inspirational scholar and teacher concerned with revealing voices from the margins This volume of essays honors Susan Niditch, author of War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence (1993), "My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man": Hair and Identity in Ancient Israel (2008), and most recently, The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods (forthcoming), among other influential publications. Essays touch on topics such as folklore, mythology, and oral history, Israelite religion, ancient Judaism, warfare, violence, and gender. Features: Essays from nineteen scholars, all experts in their fields Exploration of texts from Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament Bibliography of Niditch's scholarly contributions

ISBN: 9781930675971 1930675976

Source: 845930 MIL 22573/ctt1806hs4 JSTOR

Subjects--Personal Names:
Niditch, Susan 1950-

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Old Testament
Bibel--Altes Testament

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Folklore in the Bible.
War--Biblical teaching.
Gender identity in the Bible.
Women in the Bible.
Jews--Civilization.--Palestine
Folklore dans la Bible.
Guerre--Enseignement biblique.
Identité de genre dans la Bible.
Femmes dans la Bible.
RELIGION--Biblical Studies--Old Testament.
RELIGION--Judaism--Sacred Writings.
Folklore in the Bible
Gender identity in the Bible
Jews--Civilization
War--Biblical teaching
Women in the Bible
Exegese
Religion

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Middle East--Palestine
Israel

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Festschriften
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Festschriften.

LC Class. No.: BS511.3 / .W675 2015eb

Dewey Class. No.: 221.6