Poetic heroes literary commemorations of warriors and warrior culture in the early biblical world

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Autor principal: Smith, Mark S., 1955- (autor.)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2014].
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  • Introduction: Warriors between poetry and practice
  • I. The literary commemoration of warriors and warrior culture. Considerations of evidence and method
  • II. Three warrior pairs in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Israel. Brothers in arms
  • Gender inversion in the poetry of heroic pairs
  • III. Human and divine warriors in the Ugaritic texts. Heroes in the story of Aqhat
  • The commemoration of the dead Rephaim warriors
  • Divine warriors in the Baal cycle
  • 'Athtart among the divine warriors
  • IV. Israelite warrior poetry in the early Iron Age. Introduction to early Israelite poetry : the problem of dating "old poetry" and the poem of Judges 5
  • Human and divine warriors of Israel in Judges 5
  • The lamentation over fallen warriors in 2 Samuel 1:19-27
  • The cultural settings for warrior poetry in early Israel
  • The passing of warrior poetry in the era of prosaic heroes.