Susan Niditch
Autore di War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence
Sull'Autore
Susan Niditch is Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. Her research and teaching interests include the study of ancient Israelite literature from the perspectives of the comparative and interdisciplinary fields of folklore and oral studies; biblical ethics with special interests to mostra altro war, gender, and the body; the reception history of the Bible; and the material religion of biblical worlds. Her most recent book is The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods. mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Amherst College
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Opere di Susan Niditch
Oral World and Written Word: Ancient Israelite Literature (Library of Ancient Israel) (1996) 73 copie
Underdogs and Tricksters: A Prelude to Biblical Folklore (New Voices in Biblical Studies) (1987) 26 copie
Chaos to Cosmos: Studies in Biblical Patterns of Creation (Scholars Press studies in the humanities) (1985) 21 copie
Opere correlate
Writing and Reading War: Rhetoric, Gender, and Ethics in Biblical and Modern Contexts (Society of Biblical Literature… (2008) — Prefazione — 20 copie
War and Peace in the Ancient World (Ancient World: Comparative Histories) (2007) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism) (2016) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
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- Data di nascita
- 1950
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Amherst, Massachusetts
- Istruzione
- Harvard University (PhD)
Radcliffe College (AB) - Attività lavorative
- Professor of Religion
- Organizzazioni
- Amherst College
American Academy of Religion
American Folklore Society
Society of Biblical Literature
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- ISBN
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Well into the 18th century the campaigns against native people were justified by preachers who thanked "the mercies of God in extirpating the enemies of Israel in Canaan." The author states: "This ongoing identification between contemporary situations and the warring scenes of the Hebrew Bible is a burden the tradition must guiltily bear." [4] Indeed, "The particular violence of the Hebrew Scriputres has inspired violence, has served as a model ofand model for persecution, subjugation, and extermination for millennia beyond its own reality."
In fact, little archeology supports any suggestion that the Jews, or their scripture, are genocidal, or unusually so. In fact the authors of Chronicles and Jonah, and some Deuteronomic threads, are clearly uncomfortable with war, and especially wars of extermination. [5] A vast range of war ideologies emerge, and they are compelled by a long social history. Of which we know embarrassingly little. [10]
"The first war text of the Hebrew Scriptures, Genesis 14, is the story of Abram's military rescue of his nephew Lot." This night assault "has baffled generations of scholars and the bibliography concerning it is extensive." [11] Many of the texts and rules conflict with each other. If Genesis 14 preserves a record of a battle, and it portrays a patriarch who is socially equivalent to the warrior kings around him, but a leader who undertakes war only for defensive purposes to right an injustice, and who does not seek to profit from the battle." [12]… (altro)