The Empty Men: The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition
by Gregory Mobley
- Used
- Hardcover
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 (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)
- Author Gregory Mobley
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 316
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press
- Date 2005-12-01
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # W78888
- 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
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.