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Protest or Propaganda: War in the Old Testament Book of Kings and in Contemporaneous Ancient Near Eastern Texts: 51 (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 51) - Hardcover

Deijl, Aarnoud R Van Der

 
9789004168558: Protest or Propaganda: War in the Old Testament Book of Kings and in Contemporaneous Ancient Near Eastern Texts: 51 (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 51)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004168559 ISBN 13: 9789004168558
Publisher: Brill, 2008

Synopsis

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 von Rad put it, nor commonly Ancient Near Eastern, as Manfred Weippert thought it to be. This poses the question whether the reading experience of biblical war stories is so very different from, for instance, Assyrian royal inscriptions, both in terms of its literary value and its ideological bias. Narratological analysis turns out to be a strong tool for explaining the similarities and distinctive features of the respective texts.

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About the Author

Aarnoud van der Deijl, Ph.D. (2005) in Theology, University Faculty of Protestant Theology of Brussels, is minister in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.

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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 von Rad put it, nor commonly Ancient Near Eastern, as Manfred Weippert thought it to be. This poses the question whether the reading experience of biblical war stories is so very different from, for instance, Assyrian royal inscriptions, both in terms of its literary value and its ideological bias. Narratological analysis turns out to be a strong tool for explaining the similarities and distinctive features of the respective texts.

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Publisher
Brill
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9004168559
ISBN 13 
9789004168558
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
720