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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.

Contributor(s): Niditch, Susan [honouree.] | Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946- [editor.] | Olyan, Saul M [editor.] | Lemos, T. M. (Tracy Maria) [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Brown Judaic studies: no. 357.Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island : Brown University, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xvi, 320 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781930675933; 1930675933Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Folklore in the Bible | War -- Biblical teaching | Gender identity in the Bible | Women in the Bible | Jews -- Palestine -- CivilizationDDC classification: 221.6 LOC classification: BS511.3 | .W675 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Selected publications of Susan Niditch (pages xiii-xvi).
Contents:
Folklore, mythology and oral history -- The passing of warrior poetry in the era of prosaic heroes / Mark S. Smith -- The fugitive hero narrative pattern in Mesopotamia / Edward L. Greenstein -- Ending a performance: the tenants in Luke 20:9-19 and Gospel of Thomas 65 / Robert Doran -- A story about some stories / Margaret Mills -- The Gospel of Mark: baptism and Passover initiation / Robert B. Coote -- Orality and writing in the creation of Exilic prophetic literature / Robert R. Wilson -- Israelite religion and ancient Judaism -- Massebot standing for Yhwh: the fall of Yhwistic cult symbol / Elizabeth Bloch-Smith -- "The righteous mind" and Judean moral culture: a conversation between biblical studies and moral psychology / Carol A. Newsom -- Ritual inversion in biblical representations of punitive rites / Saul M. Olyan -- Warfare and violence -- Moral injury and the interdisciplinary study of biblical war texts: the case of King Saul / Brad E. Kelle -- Collateral duties: military objectives and civilian protections in Deuteronomy / Frank Ritchel Ames -- The agonistic imagination: the ethics of war in Deuteronomy / John J. Collins -- Rahab's valor and the Gibeonites' cowardice / Jacob L. Wright -- Gender -- The women of the Bible and of ancient Near Eastern myth: the case of the Levite's [pilegeš] / Susan Ackerman -- Were Israelite women chattel? Shedding new light on an old question / T.M. Lemos -- Crossings, transgressions, and movement in the Jephthah cycle / Suzie Park -- Ruth's beginnings: a study in contradictions / Jo Ann Hackett -- Building power: gender, identity, and conspicuous consumption in Fin de Siècle Tang China / Rebecca Doran -- Rufina refined: a woman archisynagōgos from Smyrna, yet again / Ross S. Kraemer.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Selected publications of Susan Niditch (pages xiii-xvi).

I. Folklore, mythology and oral history -- The passing of warrior poetry in the era of prosaic heroes / Mark S. Smith -- The fugitive hero narrative pattern in Mesopotamia / Edward L. Greenstein -- Ending a performance: the tenants in Luke 20:9-19 and Gospel of Thomas 65 / Robert Doran -- A story about some stories / Margaret Mills -- The Gospel of Mark: baptism and Passover initiation / Robert B. Coote -- Orality and writing in the creation of Exilic prophetic literature / Robert R. Wilson -- II. Israelite religion and ancient Judaism -- Massebot standing for Yhwh: the fall of Yhwistic cult symbol / Elizabeth Bloch-Smith -- "The righteous mind" and Judean moral culture: a conversation between biblical studies and moral psychology / Carol A. Newsom -- Ritual inversion in biblical representations of punitive rites / Saul M. Olyan -- III. Warfare and violence -- Moral injury and the interdisciplinary study of biblical war texts: the case of King Saul / Brad E. Kelle -- Collateral duties: military objectives and civilian protections in Deuteronomy / Frank Ritchel Ames -- The agonistic imagination: the ethics of war in Deuteronomy / John J. Collins -- Rahab's valor and the Gibeonites' cowardice / Jacob L. Wright -- IV. Gender -- The women of the Bible and of ancient Near Eastern myth: the case of the Levite's [pilegeš] / Susan Ackerman -- Were Israelite women chattel? Shedding new light on an old question / T.M. Lemos -- Crossings, transgressions, and movement in the Jephthah cycle / Suzie Park -- Ruth's beginnings: a study in contradictions / Jo Ann Hackett -- Building power: gender, identity, and conspicuous consumption in Fin de Siècle Tang China / Rebecca Doran -- Rufina refined: a woman archisynagōgos from Smyrna, yet again / Ross S. Kraemer.

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