The Gendered Language of Warfare in the Israelite-Assyrian Encounter

by Cynthia R. Chapman

Recognizing gendered metaphors as literary and ideological tools that biblical and Assyrian authors used in the representation of warfare and its aftermath, this study compares the gendered literary complexes that authors on both sides of the Israelite-Assyrian encounter developed in order to claim victory. The study begins by identifying and tracing historically the presentation of royal masculinity in Assyrian royal texts and reliefs dating from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575069202
• ISBN13: 9781575069203
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.