Celebrate the career of an inspirational scholar and teacher concerned with revealing voices from the margins This volume of essays honors Susan Niditch, author of War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence (1993), "My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man": Hair and Identity in Ancient Israel (2008), and most recently, The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods (forthcoming), among other influential publications. Essays touch on topics such as folklore, mythology, and oral history, Israelite religion, ancient Judaism, warfare, violence, and gender. Features: Essays from nineteen scholars, all experts in their fields Exploration of texts from Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament Bibliography of Niditch's scholarly contributions

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Collins, John J., T. M. Lemos, Saul M. Olyan, John J. Collins

Susan Niditch; John J Collins; Saul M Olyan; T. M Lemos

John J Collins; Saul M Olyan; T. M Lemos; EBSCOhost

Brown Judaic Studies

SBL Press

United States, United States of America

First, PS, 2015

Oct 30, 2015

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Source title: Worship, Women and War: Essays in Honor of Susan Niditch (Brown Judaic Studies)

I: Folklore, Mythology and Oral History
Mark S. Smith: The Passing of Warrior Poetry in the Era of Prosaic Heroes
Edward L. Greenstein: The Fugitive Hero Narrative Pattern in Mesopotamia
Robert Doran: Ending a Performance: The Tenants in Luke 20:9–19 and Gospel of Thomas 65
Margaret Mills: A Story about Some Stories
Robert B. Coote: The Gospel of Mark: Baptism and Passover Initiation
Robert R. Wilson: Orality and Writing in the Creation of Exilic Prophetic Literature
II: Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism
Elizabeth Bloch-Smith: Massebot Standing for Yhwh: The Fall of a Yhwistic Cult Symbol
Carol A. Newsom: “The Righteous Mind” and Judean Moral Culture: A Conversation between Biblical Studies and Moral Psychology
Saul M. Olyan: Ritual Inversion in Biblical Representations of Punitive Rites
III: Warfare and Violence
Brad E. Kelle: Moral Injury and the Interdisciplinary Study of Biblical War Texts: The Case of King Saul
Frank Ritchel Ames: Collateral Duties: Military Objectives and Civilian Protections in Deuteronomy
John J. Collins: The Agonistic Imagination: The Ethics of War in Deuteronomy
Jacob L. Wright: Rahab’s Valor and the Gibeonites’ Cowardice
IV: Gender
Susan Ackerman: The Women of the Bible and of Ancient Near Eastern Myth: The Case of the Levite’s פילגשׁ
T. M. Lemos: Were Israelite Women Chattel? Shedding New Light on an Old Question
Suzie Park: Crossings, Transgressions, and Movement in the Jephthah Cycle
Jo Ann Hackett: Ruth’s Beginnings: A Study in Contradictions
Rebecca Doran: Building Power: Gender, Identity, and Conspicuous Consumption in Fin de Siècle Tang China
Ross S. Kraemer: Rufina Refined: A Woman archisynagōgos from Smyrna, Yet Again

Celebrate the career of an inspirational scholar and teacher concerned with revealing voices from the margins
This volume of essays honors Susan Niditch, author of War in the Hebrew A Study in the Ethics of Violence (1993), My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man: Hair and Identity in Ancient Israel (2008), and most recently, The Responsive Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods (forthcoming), among other influential publications. Essays touch on topics such as folklore, mythology, and oral history, Israelite religion, ancient Judaism, warfare, violence, and gender.
Essays from nineteen scholars, all experts in their fields Exploration of texts from Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, and the New TestamentBibliography of Niditch's scholarly contributions John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University. His recent books include Beyond the Qumran Sectarian Communities in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Eerdmans).
T. M. Lemos is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Huron University College and a member of the graduate school faculty of the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient 1200 BCE to 200 CE (Cambridge University Press).
Saul M. Olyan is the Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Social Inequality in the World of the The Significance of Ritual and Social Distinctions in the Hebrew Bible (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht).

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