TY - BOOK AU - Deijl,Aarnoud van der TI - Protest or propaganda: war in the Old Testament book of Kings and in contemporaneous ancient Near Eastern texts T2 - Brill eBook titles 2008 SN - 9789047443414 AV - BS1335.6.W2 D45 2008 U1 - 222/.506 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Könige KW - swd KW - Bible KW - O.T KW - Kings KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Extra-canonical parallels KW - Heiliger Krieg KW - Krieg KW - Military art and science KW - Middle East KW - History KW - Military history in the Bible KW - War in literature KW - War KW - Biblical teaching KW - Alter Orient KW - To 622 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [689]-700) and indexes; Preliminary Materials; A.R. Van Der Deijl --; Chapter One. Introduction, Terminology State Of The Research, Research Questions; A.R. Van Der Deijl --; Chapter Two. War In The Book Of Kings; A.R. Van Der Deijl --; Chapter Three. War In A Number Of Extrabiblical Texts; A.R. Van Der Deijl --; Chapter Four. Summary And Conclusions; A.R. Van Der Deijl --; Bibliography; A.R. Van Der Deijl --; Scripture Index; A.R. Van Der Deijl; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - In this study, the war stories from the Old Testament book of Kings are compared to ten extrabiblical texts. Narratological analysis is applied to deconstruct the ideology of the respective literary compositions. The Old Testament ideology of war seems to be neither typically Israelite, as Gerhardt von Rad put it, nor commonly Ancient Near Eastern, as Manfred Weippert thought it to be. This poses the question whether the reading experience of biblical war stories is so very different from, for instance, Assyrian royal inscriptions, both in terms of its literary value and its ideological bias. Narratological analysis turns out to be a strong tool for explaining the similarities and distinctive features of the respective texts UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004168558.i-708 ER -