This book was written with the generous and much appreciated support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Amherst College.
This essay in this volume explore connections between biblical and non-biblical traditional literatures, and test what may be learned from such a comparative and cross-cultural enterprise.
Dealing with a wide spectrum of war ideologies in the Hebrew Bible, this study seeks to discover why and how these views might have made sense to biblical writers. It challenges the stereotype of the "violent" Old Testament.