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The Empty Men: The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Mobley, Gregory
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- Hardcover
- first
From the epic of Gideon's army to the tale of Samson and Delilah to the history of David's family and the disputes surrounding the succession to the throne, Mobley compares well-known Bible stories to ancient Semitic and European heroic traditions, exposes the elements they share, and demonstrates that these heroic elements were obscured by the theologically minded editors of the Bible.
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- Title The Empty Men: The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel
- Author Mobley, Gregory
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Pages 316
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Doubleday, New York
- Date 2006
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # BOOKS083433I
- ISBN 9780300140125 / 0300140126
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.54 x 6.43 x 0.98 in (24.23 x 16.33 x 2.49 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Theometrics: Academic
- Dewey Decimal Code 222.320
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From the jacket flap
Gregory Mobley brings a highly original eye to the familiar stories found in Judges, which depicts Israel's frontier era, and the" First and Second Books of Samuel, which portray the ragged and violent emergence of kingship in Judah and Israel. From Ehud's mission into an inaccessible Moabite palace to the triumph of Gideon and his elite squadron against a Midianite swarm, from the gangland epic of the warlord Abimelech's rise and fall to the narrative of Samson, Israel's great outlaw-hero, Mobley rescues these stories from their theologically minded biblical editors and traditional interpreters. Mobley draws upon Semitic and European heroic traditions about warriors and wild men, and upon Celtic, Anglo-American, and African-American balladry about borderers and outlaws, to dig out the heroic themes submerged in biblical adventure stories.
THE EMPTY MEN describes the process by which adventure stories-replete with foolish love, warfare, assassinations, ritual slaughter, and grim masculine codes-were transformed into sermons and history lessons. Mobley also offers reflections on the Iron Age theology of these narratives, with their emphasis on poetic justice, and on the mythic dimensions of landscape in these stories. Mobley is sure to attract a lot of attention in the scholarly community for his raw portrayals of biblical heroes, for his unblinking attention to the martial codes and the warrior subculture of ancient Israel, and for his bittersweet reflections on the theological and ethical significance of this corpus of adventure stories which are under the surface-but close to the bedrock-of the many mansions that Judaism and Christianity have built in subsequent centuries onthese foundational texts.
THE EMPTY MEN describes the process by which adventure stories-replete with foolish love, warfare, assassinations, ritual slaughter, and grim masculine codes-were transformed into sermons and history lessons. Mobley also offers reflections on the Iron Age theology of these narratives, with their emphasis on poetic justice, and on the mythic dimensions of landscape in these stories. Mobley is sure to attract a lot of attention in the scholarly community for his raw portrayals of biblical heroes, for his unblinking attention to the martial codes and the warrior subculture of ancient Israel, and for his bittersweet reflections on the theological and ethical significance of this corpus of adventure stories which are under the surface-but close to the bedrock-of the many mansions that Judaism and Christianity have built in subsequent centuries onthese foundational texts.