War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of ViolenceOxford University Press, 29/06/1995 - 299 من الصفحات 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. |
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1 The Ban as Gods Portion | 28 |
2 The Ban as Gods Justice | 56 |
3 The Priestly Ideology of War in Numbers 31 | 78 |
4 The Bardic Tradition of War | 90 |
5 The Ideology of Tricksterism | 106 |
6 The Ideology of Expediency and Biblical Critique | 123 |
7 Toward an Ideology of Nonparticipation | 134 |
Conclusions | 150 |
References | 157 |
Additional Readings | 171 |
Index of Biblical Citations | 173 |
General Index | 178 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 115 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
الصفحة xi - JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society JBL Journal of Biblical Literature...
الصفحة 75 - And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
الصفحة 75 - And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: 8.
الصفحة 26 - But thou shalt utterly destroy them, namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee : 18.
الصفحة 56 - Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
الصفحة 31 - And Chemosh said unto me, Go, take Nebo against Israel. And I went by night, and fought against it from the break of dawn until noon. And I took it, and slew the whole of it, 7,000 men . . . and women and [men-servants ?], and maid-servants : for I had devoted it to 'AshtorChemosh. And I took thence the vessels of YAHWEH, and I dragged them before Chemosh,' &C.1 There is real piety in this.
الصفحة 45 - Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
الصفحة 88 - Your servants have counted the warriors who are under our command, and not one of us is missing. 50 And we have brought the LORD'S offering, what each of us found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and pendants, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.
الصفحة 15 - A, consists of those societies which have centralized authority, administrative machinery, and judicial institutions — in short, a government — and in which cleavages of wealth, privilege, and status correspond to the distribution of power and authority.