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War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
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War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
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The Hebrew Bible is permeated with depictions of military conflicts
that have profoundly shaped the way many think about war. Why does
war occupy so much space in the Bible? In this book, Jacob Wright
offers a fresh and fascinating response to this question: War
pervades the Bible not because ancient Israel was governed by
religious factors (such as 'holy war') or because this people,
along with its neighbors in the ancient Near East, was especially
bellicose. The reason is rather that the Bible is fundamentally a
project of constructing a new national identity for Israel, one
that can both transcend deep divisions within the population and
withstand military conquest by imperial armies. Drawing on the
intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, Wright
shows how biblical authors, like the architects of national
identities from more recent times, constructed a new and
influential notion of peoplehood in direct relation to memories of
war, both real and imagined. This book is also available as Open
Access on Cambridge Core.
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