1st Edition
War and Peace in Jewish Tradition From the Biblical World to the Present
Introduction Part 1: War and Peace in the Bible 1. The Freeing of Captives in the Ancient Near East and in the Bible 2. "Set Bread and Water before Them" (2 Kings 6:22): Elisha’s Order to Treat the Enemy with Mercy and its Implications 3. The Wars of Joshua: Weaning Away from the Divine 4. "He Teaches My Hands to War": The Semiotics of Ritual Hand Gestures in Ancient Israelite Warfare 5. "Human, All Too Human": Royal Name-Making in Wartime 6. Civil War in the Bible: An Unsolved Problem 7. Internecine Wars in Biblical Israel Part 2: Theoretical Aspects of War in Rabbinic Thought 8. War and Aesthetics in Jewish Law 9. The Morality of War in Rabbinic Literature: The Call for Peace and the Limitation of the Siege 10. Peace, Secularism and Religion 11. Moral Considerations Relating to Criticism of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Rabbinic Literature and the Just War Theory 12. The Law of Obligatory War and Israeli Reality Part 3: War and Peace in Jewish Thought and Practice 13. "A Victory of the Slavs Means a Deathblow to Democracy": The Onset of World War I and the Images of the Warring Sides among Jewish Immigrants in New York, 1914-1915 14. Ben Gurion and the Onset of War 15. The Journey After: Of One who Saw the Horrors of War: A Study of Orpaz's The Voyage of Daniel Part 4: Israel, War, Ethics and the Media 16. War, Religion and Israel’s Foreign Press Corps 17. The New York Times’ Coverage of the Gaza War: An Apologia 18. Media Ethics in Times of War
Biography
Yigal Levin is a senior lecturer at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and at the Department of Israel’s Heritage at the Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israel.
Amnon Shapira is a senior lecturer at the Department of Israel’s Heritage at the Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israel, and a past member of the Department of Bible at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
