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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2020

Jacob L. Wright
Jacob L. Wright
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Emory University, Atlanta
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War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible , pp. vii - x
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020
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Contents

  1. Preface

  2. Introduction:Wellhausen, War, and the Creation of a Nation

    1. Defeat and the Birth of a New Religious Identity

    2. Nation and State

    3. From the Priestly Source to Ezra-Nehemiah

    4. War Commemoration

    5. Purpose and Plan of the Present Book

  3. Part IRefugee Memories: Negotiating Relations and Borders with Neighboring States

    1. 1Passages to Peace

      1. Passage Denied

      2. Moses’s Conflicting Memory

      3. Commemoration and Legislation

      4. David in the Wilderness

      5. War Memories as Casus Belli

      6. Permits of Passage in an Age of Empires

    2. 2Edom as Israel’s Other

      1. Israel’s First Homecoming

      2. Memories of Edomite Aggression

      3. The Politics of Scapegoating

      4. Judean Irredentism

      5. Implications for the Documentary Hypothesis

      6. Contesting Memories

  4. Part IIKinship and Commandment: The Transjordanian Tribes and the Conquest of Canaan

    1. 3Mapping the Promised Land

      1. The Jordan as the Nation’s Border

      2. The Wadi Arnon in Deuteronomy

      3. The Transjordan in Joshua

      4. Contested Territory

    2. 4The Nation’s Transjordanian Vanguard

      1. The Narrative of Numbers

      2. Composition of Numbers 32

      3. The Shifting Contexts of the Account

      4. Tribes Before Kings

      5. The Nation’s Avant-Garde

      6. Kinship and Command

      7. Performing Peoplehood

    3. 5A Nation Beyond Its Borders

      1. Moses’s Memory in Deuteronomy

      2. Affirming Allegiance in Joshua

      3. The Division of the Land

      4. Honoring Wartime Service

      5. From Celebration to Crisis

      6. Nation Versus Territory

      7. One Yhwh, One Israel

    4. 6Kinship, Law, and Narrative

      1. From State Diplomacy to National Belonging

      2. Constitutional Patriotism

      3. How Does a Text Become Sacred?

      4. A Normative Past

  5. Part IIIRahab: An Archetypal Outsider

    1. 7Between Faith and Works

      1. Three Early Christian Interpreters

      2. First Epistle of Clement

      3. Letter to the Hebrews

      4. The Epistle of James

      5. Christians as Readers of the Jewish Scriptures

      6. Josephus

      7. Rahab and the Rabbis

      8. Conversion and Naturalization

      9. The Repentant Rahab

      10. From Rahab to Paul

    2. 8The Composition of the Rahab Story

      1. The Rahab Story as a Narrative Frame

      2. The Place of the Rahab Story in the Narrative

      3. A City Besieged

      4. Edification of a Defeated Nation

      5. Belief and Action

      6. A New Covenant

      7. Inclusion Versus Integration

    3. 9Rahab’s Courage and the Gibeonites’ Cowardice

      1. Archeological and Biblical Evidence

      2. Relationship to Jerusalem’s Temple

      3. From Joshua to Saul

      4. An Early Memory of Joshua

      5. The Composition of Joshua 9

      6. From Saul to David

      7. Rizpah’s Heroism

      8. The Gibeonites, Rahab, and Biblical War Commemoration

  6. Part IVDeborah: Mother of a Voluntary Nation

    1. 10A Prophet and Her General

      1. The Book of Judges as a Bridge

      2. An Older Source?

      3. Deborah and Gideon

      4. The Jael Episode

      5. Deconstructing Male Power

      6. Martial Valor and Monarchic Rule

    2. 11A Poetic War Monument

      1. Between Prose and Poetry

      2. Repurposing an Older Hymn

      3. A National God and Israel’s Unity

      4. Religious Unity and American National Identity

    3. 12A National Anthem for the North

      1. Mobilizing the Nation’s Members

      2. Censure of Transjordanian Communities

      3. Judah’s Absence

      4. The Curse of Meroz

      5. Meroz and the American War of Independence

      6. A Nation Without a King

    4. 13Women and War Commemoration

      1. Mothers of Soldiers

      2. Political Performances

      3. Between Bed and Battlefield

      4. Memory as a Moral Imperative

    5. 14Jael’s Identities

      1. The Kenites’ Solidarity with Israel

      2. The Kenites on the Biblical Landscape

      3. From Saul to Moses

      4. Fellow Travelers

      5. Devotion to a Deity

      6. Jael as a Kenite and a Jew

    6. Conclusions:A Movable Monument and a Portable Homeland

      1. Fighting for the King: War Commemoration in the Ancient Near East

      2. Saving Holy Hellas: War Commemoration in the East Aegean World

      3. From Athens to Jerusalem

      4. Back to Wellhausen and the Nation

      5. Law, Narrative, and Kinship

  7. Bibliography

  8. Index of Authors’ Names

  9. Index of Biblical References

  10. Index of Literary References

  11. Index of Subjects

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  • Jacob L. Wright, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Book: War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible
  • Online publication: 27 July 2020
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