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Autore |
Deijl Aarnoud van der |
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Titolo |
Protest or propaganda [[electronic resource] ] : war in the Old Testament book of Kings and in contemporaneous ancient Near Eastern texts / / by Aarnoud van der Deijl |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-06115-5 |
9786613061157 |
90-474-4341-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (720 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studia Semitica Neerlandica, , 0081-6914 ; ; v. 51 |
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Soggetti |
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War - Biblical teaching |
Military history in the Bible |
Middle Eastern literature - Relation to the Old Testament |
War in literature |
Military art and science - Middle East - History |
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Middle East History To 622 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [689]-700) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary Materials / A.R. Van Der Deijl -- Chapter One. Introduction, Terminology State Of The Research, Research Questions / A.R. Van Der Deijl -- Chapter Two. War In The Book Of Kings / A.R. Van Der Deijl -- Chapter Three. War In A Number Of Extrabiblical Texts / A.R. Van Der Deijl -- Chapter Four. Summary And Conclusions / A.R. Van Der Deijl -- Bibliography / A.R. Van Der Deijl -- Scripture Index / A.R. Van Der Deijl. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this study, the war stories from the Old Testament book of Kings are compared to ten extrabiblical texts. Narratological analysis is applied to deconstruct the ideology of the respective literary compositions. The Old Testament ideology of war seems to be neither typically Israelite, as Gerhardt von Rad put it, nor commonly Ancient Near Eastern, as Manfred Weippert thought it to be. This poses the question whether the |
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