Protest or propaganda : war in the Old Testament book of Kings and in contemporaneous ancient Near Eastern texts /

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...

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Main Author: Deijl, Aarnoud van der.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Series: Studia Semitica Neerlandica 51.
Studia Semitica Neerlandica Online, ISBN: 9789004353770.

Subjects:

Könige <Buch,I. II.>

Bible. > O.T. > Kings > Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible. > O.T. > Kings > Extra-canonical parallels.

Heiliger Krieg.