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  • 12 - A National Anthem for the North

  • from Part IV - Deborah: Mother of a Voluntary Nation
  • Jacob L. Wright, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Book:
    War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible
    Published online:
    27 July 2020
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    23 July 2020, pp 194-209
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    This third chapter of Part IV treats the broader purpose of the Song of Deborah. By means of war commemoration, the formation of community that commences already prior to and during large-scale military conflict can persist long thereafter. In times when Israel no longer possessed a native army to fight wars, the Song of Deborah could continue to work as a unifying force for Israel as a “mnemonic community.”The present chapter explores this important function of the song, comparing it to parallels from the Bible as well as the ancient Aegean world and Colonial America. It demonstrates that the song served as a “national anthem” for Northern communities after the fall of the kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE.

  • 4 - The Nation’s Transjordanian Vanguard

  • from Part II - Kinship and Commandment: The Transjordanian Tribes and the Conquest of Canaan
  • Jacob L. Wright, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Book:
    War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible
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    27 July 2020
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    23 July 2020, pp 62-78
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    The second chapter of Part II treats the first episode in the Narrative of the Transjordanian Tribes. The episode depicts two of Israel’s twelve tribes petitioning Moses to be allowed to occupy territories on the eastern side of the Jordan; their petition incenses Moses, and in responding to his outrage, the tribes affirm the bipartite basis for their affiliation with the nation: kinship and obedience.