Poetic heroes : literary commemorations of warriors and warrior culture in the early biblical world /
Mark S. Smith.
- xxiv, 636 páginas ; 23 centímetros.
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Introduction: Warriors between poetry and practice -- I. The literary commemoration of warriors and warrior culture. Considerations of evidence and method -- II. Three warrior pairs in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Israel. Brothers in arms -- Gender inversion in the poetry of heroic pairs -- III. Human and divine warriors in the Ugaritic texts. Heroes in the story of Aqhat -- The commemoration of the dead Rephaim warriors -- Divine warriors in the Baal cycle -- 'Athtart among the divine warriors -- IV. Israelite warrior poetry in the early Iron Age. Introduction to early Israelite poetry : the problem of dating "old poetry" and the poem of Judges 5 -- Human and divine warriors of Israel in Judges 5 -- The lamentation over fallen warriors in 2 Samuel 1:19-27 -- The cultural settings for warrior poetry in early Israel -- The passing of warrior poetry in the era of prosaic heroes.
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