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Warfare, Ritual, and Symbolin Biblical and Modern

Contexts

Edited byBrad E. Kelle, Frank Ritchel Ames,and Jacob L. Wright

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Society of Biblical Literature

Questions about ritual and symbolism related to war in the Hebrew

Bible abound: What wartime rituals were performed and why? What

constitutes a symbol in war? How did rituals and symbols function

before, during, and after campaigns and battles? What effects did

they have on insiders? on outsiders? In what ways did symbols and

rituals function as instruments of war, the formation of states, and

social reintegration? To answer these and other pertinent questions,

this volume offers fourteen scholarly explorations of the social

determinants of rituals and symbols of escalation, preparation,

and aggression, as well as rituals and symbols of de-escalation,

perpetuation, and commemoration of war.

BRAD E. KELLE is Professor of Old Testament and Director of the M.A. in

Religion Program at Point Loma Nazarene University. He is the author of  Ancient

 Israel at War 853–586 B.C. (Osprey), co-author of Biblical History and Israel’s Past:

The Changing Study of the Bible and History (Eerdmans), and co-editor of Writing

and Reading War: Rhetoric, Gender, and Ethics in Biblical and Modern Contexts  and Interpreting Exile: Displacement and Deportation in Biblical and Modern Contexts 

(both from Society of Biblical Literature).

FRANK RITCHEL AMES is Professor of Medical Informatics and Coordinator of

Ethics Curriculum at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine.

He is a contributor to and co-editor of Writing and Reading War: Rhetoric,

Gender, and Ethics in Biblical and Modern Contexts ; Foster Biblical Scholarship:

Essays in Honor of Kent Harold Richards ; and Interpreting Exile: Displacement

and Deportation in Biblical and Modern Contexts (all from Society of Biblical

Literature).

 JACOB L. WRIGHT is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Candler School of

Theology, Emory University. He is the author of the Templeton award–winning

Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and Its Earliest Readers (de Gruyter)and co-editor of Interpreting Exile: Displacement and Deportation in Biblical and

 Modern Contexts (Society of Biblical Literature).