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Interpreting Exile: Displacement and Deportation in Biblical and Modern Contexts

By Brad E. Kelle , Frank Richtel Ames , Jacob L. Wright

Book information

Publisher
Society of Biblical Literature
Year
2011
ISBN
1589836049, 9781589836044
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10708746 bytes)
Series
SBL Ancient Israel and Its Literature 10
Pages
xiv+464\480
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-04-28 15:00:39

Description

Interpreting Exile considers forced displacement and deportation in ancient Israel and comparable modern contexts in order to offer insight into the realities of war and exile in ancient Israel and their representations in the Hebrew Bible. Introductory essays describe the interdisciplinary and comparative approach and explain how it overcomes methodological dead ends and advances the study of war in ancient and modern contexts. Following essays, written by scholars from various disciplines, explore specific cases drawn from a wide variety of ancient and modern settings and consider archaeological, anthropological, physical, and psychological realities, as well as biblical, literary, artistic, and iconographic representations of displacement and exile. The volume as a whole places Israel's experiences and expressions of forced displacement into the broader context of similar war-related phenomena from multiple contexts.

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