War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible, Hardback - Jacob L. Wright

Drawing on the intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, the book shows that war pervades the pages of the Bible because its auth...

Examines the long-debated issue of the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern myths. This book argues that myth has had a m...

Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In...

DescriptionIn 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico...

This book presents the remarkable constitutional reforms undertaken by the Blair and Brown governments in the UK. The reforms are remarkable in tha...

This book illuminates the history of popular dance, one of the most influential and widespread leisure practices in early twentieth-century Britain...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Jonah, Second Edition, part of the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament series, serves pastors and teachers by providing them with ...

This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the...

Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan addresses Japan's evolving nationalism and national identity in relation to its newl...

Persons and Other Things looks closely at the Bible as a philosophical work, asking insightful questions about how to interpret the Hebrew Bible, w...

This study provides a broad examination of historical memory of World War II. Focusing on the Asia Pacific region, the contributors analyze how the...

Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang Kai-shek's leadership and legacy in an intriguing new portrait of this twentieth-century leader. Comparing his re...

Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang Kai-shek's leadership and legacy in an intriguing new portrait of this twentieth-century leader. Comparing his re...

While the expectations and circumstances of women's lives in ancient Israel have received considerable attention in recent scholarship, to date lit...

Reducere. JESUS THE MESSIAH IN THE HEBREW BIBLE deals with the messianic texts found in the Hebrew Bible. Shifting away from conventional paradigms, Eugen Pe...

Reducere. In Performing Masculinity, the eminent Bulgarian literary critic Milena Kirova turns her attention to the Hebrew Bible, offering a reworking and co...

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Combining philological data, social-science models, and cross-cultural comparisons, Russaw examines the systems that constrict biblical daughters a...

The first book to explore the texts in the Hebrew Bible in which a character expresses a wish to die. The death wish is a powerful rhetorical strat...

Now more than ever the role of icons and monuments in shaping a national identity is a subject of vital importance to scholars of both nationalism ...

This book analyses the biblical notions of purity and pollution as they relate to the body. It integrates psychological and anthropological insight...

Reducere. Essays on the use of word play in the literature of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and Israel, and Medieval Hebrew and Arabic literature; incl...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Jacob L. VigdorNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 235 x 159 x 27Cover type: HardbackRe...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Robert, OFS Miller IIIllustration(s): illusNumber of pages: 120Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 493 x 2...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Mira MorgensternNumber of pages: 434Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 164 x 237 x 28Cover type: Har...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Vassilis (University of Tartu, Estonia) PetsinisIllustration(s): 9 bw illusNumber of pages: 288Publi...

Wittlinger takes a fresh look at German national identity in the 21st century and shows that it has undergone considerable changes since unificatio...

Reducere. Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of par...

Explores the stereotypes often found in patriotic rhetoric, popular media, literature, and veterans' lives.Publisher: The University Press of Kentu...

Description Literature and Poverty offers an engaging overview of changes in literary perceptions of poverty and the poor. Part I of the book, from...

Reducere. This pedagogically astute introduction to the Hebrew Bible is designed specifically for undergraduates. It begins with the most basic questions: fr...

Reducere. DescriptionThe student of Hebrew need master a vocabulary of less than 800 words to have learned all the verbs occurring twenty-five times or more ...

The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics offers an engaging and informative response to a wide range of ethical issues. Drawing conne...

Argentine Cinema and National Identity covers the development of Argentine cinema since the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, concentrating on the histo...

This ground-breaking study provides an authoritative account of the career of this iconic star. It illuminates his early work, his role as James Bo...

Reducere. How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance, " which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France ...

Daniela L. Caglioti shows how states at war, when faced with real or alleged security threats, redrew the boundaries between members and non-member...

Reducere. This Companion offers a concise and engaging introduction to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Providing an up-to-date 'snapshot' of scholarship, ...

A leading historian explores the myths that define Spain's view of its own past This book, the latest contribution by eminent historian Henry Kamen...

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Provides a bold new interpretation of the Soviet myth of World War II from its Stalinist origins to its emergence as arguably the supreme myth of s...

Publisher: Jacob TonsonAuthor(s): Robert WhelanIllustration(s): 1 chart, 18 black and white engraving, 6 images and paintingsNumber of pages: 564Pu...

A powerful examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. Its focus on the comp...