TY - BOOK AU - Niditch,Susan AU - Collins,John J. AU - Olyan,Saul M. AU - Lemos,T.M. TI - Worship, women, and war: essays in honor of Susan Niditch T2 - Brown Judaic studies SN - 9781930675971 AV - BS511.3 .W675 2015 U1 - 221.6 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Providence, Rhode Island PB - Brown University KW - Niditch, Susan KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - fast KW - Bibel KW - Altes Testament KW - gnd KW - Folklore in the Bible KW - War KW - Biblical teaching KW - Gender identity in the Bible KW - Women in the Bible KW - Jews KW - Palestine KW - Civilization KW - RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings KW - Exegese KW - Religion KW - Middle East KW - Israel KW - Altertum KW - Electronic books N1 - Selected publications of Susan Niditch (pages xiii-xvi); Includes bibliographical references and indexes; I. Folklore, mythology and oral history. The passing of warrior poetry in the era of prosaic heroes ; The fugitive hero narrative pattern in Mesopotamia ; Ending a performance: the tenants in Luke 20:9-19 and Gospel of Thomas 65 ; A story about some stories ; The Gospel of Mark: baptism and Passover initiation ; Orality and writing in the creation of Exilic prophetic literature -- II. Israelite religion and ancient Judaism. Massebot standing for Yhwh: the fall of Yhwistic cult symbol ; "The righteous mind" and Judean moral culture: a conversation between biblical studies and moral psychology ; Ritual inversion in biblical representations of puntitive rites -- III. Warfare and violence. Moral injury and the interdisciplinary study of biblical war texts: the case of King Saul ; Collateral duties: military objectives and civilian protections in Deuteronomy ; The agonistic imagination: the ethics of war in Deuteronomy ; Rahab's valor and the Gibeonites' cowardice -- IV. Gender. The women of the Bible and of ancient Near Eastern myth: the case of the Levite's [pileges] ; Were Israelite women chattel? Shedding new light on an old question ; Crossings, transgressions, and movement in the Jephthah cycle ; Ruth's beginnings: a study in contradictions ; Building power: gender, identity, and conspicuous consumption in Fin de Si�ecle Tang China ; Rufina refined: a woman archisynagogos from Smyrna, yet again UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1803z68 ER -