Susan Niditch
Biographic Data
| ID | 575695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Niditch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Niditch |
| SIGNATURE | NIDITCH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East by Rory Cox
A host of psychologists and moral philosophers have explored the ways in which all human societies express concern with moral choice, although cultures will differ in delineating the right from the wrong and in defining what makes for positive and proper interactions between people.1 The same applies to questions concerning what constitutes just war, both causes and conduct, in one or another culture. Cox’s book grapples deeply with such question…
John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Oral Theory
This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral theorists. Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse and Old English riddles, and medieval music, the contributors collectively work to refine, challenge, and further advance contemporary Oral …
Folklore and the Hebrew Bible: Interdisciplinary Engagement and New Directions
This essay explores the rich interactions between the fields of folklore and biblical studies over the course of the 20th century until the present. The essay argues for the continued relevance of folklore and related fields to an appreciation of ancient Israelite cultures and their artistic inventions. It concludes with several case studies that underscore the fruitful realizations that emerge from this sort of interdisciplinary humanistic work
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel
The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods
Works created in the period from the Babylonian conquest of Judea through the takeover and rule of Judea and Samaria by imperial Persia reveal a profound interest in the religious responses of individuals and an intimate engagement with the nature of personal experience. Using the rich and varied body of literature preserved in the Hebrew Bible, Susan Niditch examines ways in which followers of Yahweh, participating in long-standing traditions, a…
The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods
Works created in the period from the Babylonian conquest of Judea through the takeover and rule of Judea and Samaria by imperial Persia reveal a profound interest in the religious responses of individuals and an intimate engagement with the nature of personal experience. Using the rich and varied body of literature preserved in the Hebrew Bible, Susan Niditch examines ways in which followers of Yahweh, participating in long-standing traditions, a…
Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel
The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible (review)
Ilana Pardes. The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible. Berkeley: U of California P, 2000. 222 pp. ISBN 0-520-21110-3, $24.95
Ancient Israelite Religion
Oral World and Written Word: Ancient Israelite Literature
The historical and literary questions about ancient Israel that traditionally have preoccupied biblical scholars often have overlooked the social realities of life experienced by the vast majority of the population of ancient Israel. Volumes in the Library of Ancient Israel draw on multiple disciplines -- such as archaeology, anthropology, sociology, and literary criticism -- to illumine the everyday realities and social subtleties these ancient …
War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence
Themes and Variations: A Study of Action in Biblical Narrative . Robert C. Culley
War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence
War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence
Texts about war pervade the Hebrew Bible, raising challenging questions in religious and political ethics. Among the most disquieting war passages are those in which God demands the total annihilation of the enemy without regard to gender, age, or military status. The ideology of the ban, however, is only one among a range of attitudes towards war preserved in the ancient Israelite literary tradition. Applying insights from anthropology, comparat…
"Niditch's "Underdogs and Tricksters
Underdogs and Tricksters: A Prelude to Biblical Folklore
The Flood Myth
"Niditch's "Symbolic Vision in Biblical Tradition
The Cosmic Adam: Man as Mediator in Rabbinic Literature
Nombreuses speculations sur Adam dans le midrash: c'est que connaitre le premier homme, c'est connaitre la nature de tous les hommes. Le theme central: Adam, homme a la stature cosmique, embrassant l'univers, ayant aussi le don de connaitre l'avenir. Paralleles dans les speculations gnostiques. Cet Adam est parfois appele golem, d'apres Psaume 139: 16. Le midrash depeint un Adam mediateur cosmique (il s'etend du monde d'en-bas au monde d'en-haut,…
Merits, Martyrs, and 'Your Life as Booty: An Exegesis of Mekilta, Pisha 1
Father-Son Folktale Patterns and Tyrant Typologies in Josephus' Ant. 12: 160-222
The Wronged Woman Righted: An Analysis of Genesis 38
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A Test Case for Formal Variants in Proverbs
The Wronged Woman Righted: An Analysis of Genesis 38
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence
War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence
The Cosmic Adam: Man as Mediator in Rabbinic Literature
Nombreuses speculations sur Adam dans le midrash: c'est que connaitre le premier homme, c'est connaitre la nature de tous les hommes. Le theme central: Adam, homme a la stature cosmique, embrassant l'univers, ayant aussi le don de connaitre l'avenir. Paralleles dans les speculations gnostiques. Cet Adam est parfois appele golem, d'apres Psaume 139: 16. Le midrash depeint un Adam mediateur cosmique (il s'etend du monde d'en-bas au monde d'en-haut,…
A Test Case for Formal Variants in Proverbs
The Wronged Woman Righted: An Analysis of Genesis 38
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Father-Son Folktale Patterns and Tyrant Typologies in Josephus' Ant. 12: 160-222
Merits, Martyrs, and 'Your Life as Booty: An Exegesis of Mekilta, Pisha 1
The Cosmic Adam: Man as Mediator in Rabbinic Literature
Nombreuses speculations sur Adam dans le midrash: c'est que connaitre le premier homme, c'est connaitre la nature de tous les hommes. Le theme central: Adam, homme a la stature cosmique, embrassant l'univers, ayant aussi le don de connaitre l'avenir. Paralleles dans les speculations gnostiques. Cet Adam est parfois appele golem, d'apres Psaume 139: 16. Le midrash depeint un Adam mediateur cosmique (il s'etend du monde d'en-bas au monde d'en-haut,…
"Niditch's "Symbolic Vision in Biblical Tradition
The Flood Myth
"Niditch's "Underdogs and Tricksters
Underdogs and Tricksters: A Prelude to Biblical Folklore
War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence
Texts about war pervade the Hebrew Bible, raising challenging questions in religious and political ethics. Among the most disquieting war passages are those in which God demands the total annihilation of the enemy without regard to gender, age, or military status. The ideology of the ban, however, is only one among a range of attitudes towards war preserved in the ancient Israelite literary tradition. Applying insights from anthropology, comparat…
Themes and Variations: A Study of Action in Biblical Narrative . Robert C. Culley
War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence
War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence
Ancient Israelite Religion
Oral World and Written Word: Ancient Israelite Literature
The historical and literary questions about ancient Israel that traditionally have preoccupied biblical scholars often have overlooked the social realities of life experienced by the vast majority of the population of ancient Israel. Volumes in the Library of Ancient Israel draw on multiple disciplines -- such as archaeology, anthropology, sociology, and literary criticism -- to illumine the everyday realities and social subtleties these ancient …
The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible (review)
Ilana Pardes. The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible. Berkeley: U of California P, 2000. 222 pp. ISBN 0-520-21110-3, $24.95
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel
The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods
Works created in the period from the Babylonian conquest of Judea through the takeover and rule of Judea and Samaria by imperial Persia reveal a profound interest in the religious responses of individuals and an intimate engagement with the nature of personal experience. Using the rich and varied body of literature preserved in the Hebrew Bible, Susan Niditch examines ways in which followers of Yahweh, participating in long-standing traditions, a…
The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods
Works created in the period from the Babylonian conquest of Judea through the takeover and rule of Judea and Samaria by imperial Persia reveal a profound interest in the religious responses of individuals and an intimate engagement with the nature of personal experience. Using the rich and varied body of literature preserved in the Hebrew Bible, Susan Niditch examines ways in which followers of Yahweh, participating in long-standing traditions, a…
Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel
Folklore and the Hebrew Bible: Interdisciplinary Engagement and New Directions
This essay explores the rich interactions between the fields of folklore and biblical studies over the course of the 20th century until the present. The essay argues for the continued relevance of folklore and related fields to an appreciation of ancient Israelite cultures and their artistic inventions. It concludes with several case studies that underscore the fruitful realizations that emerge from this sort of interdisciplinary humanistic work
John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Oral Theory
This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral theorists. Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse and Old English riddles, and medieval music, the contributors collectively work to refine, challenge, and further advance contemporary Oral …
The Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East by Rory Cox
A host of psychologists and moral philosophers have explored the ways in which all human societies express concern with moral choice, although cultures will differ in delineating the right from the wrong and in defining what makes for positive and proper interactions between people.1 The same applies to questions concerning what constitutes just war, both causes and conduct, in one or another culture. Cox’s book grapples deeply with such question…
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