This study of ancient attitudes toward war and its place in society surveys and offers a critique of recent literature on the subject of ancient biblical warfare. It extends the investigation into developing interdisciplinary resources dealing with the ways in which texts reflect perceptions and meanings deriving from the social world of the First Testament.
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