عنوان

Warring against Terror The War Scroll and the Mobilization of Emotion

شماره

LA118511

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Warring against Terror The War Scroll and the Mobilization of Emotion

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Steven Weitzman

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

While noticing that the tactics and weapons prescribed in the War Scroll resemble those used by Greek and Roman armies, previous scholarship has been dubious of the idea that the scroll actually guided real-life military practice because its battle-plan seems so impractical, assuming a conflict that unfolds in a highly scripted way and relying on ritual and supernatural assistance. This essay aims to rethink the role that the War Scroll played in early Jewish military practice by reading it in light of Greco-Roman theories of how to deploy emotion in battle. Military thinkers like Xenophon and Julius Caesar recognized troop psychology as an important tactical variable that could be manipulated through ritual and supernatural portents. The War Scroll mirrors these practices in a way that supports reading it as a similar effort to manipulate troop psychology arising under the influence of-and perhaps in reaction against-Greco-Roman military practice. While noticing that the tactics and weapons prescribed in the War Scroll resemble those used by Greek and Roman armies, previous scholarship has been dubious of the idea that the scroll actually guided real-life military practice because its battle-plan seems so impractical, assuming a conflict that unfolds in a highly scripted way and relying on ritual and supernatural assistance. This essay aims to rethink the role that the War Scroll played in early Jewish military practice by reading it in light of Greco-Roman theories of how to deploy emotion in battle. Military thinkers like Xenophon and Julius Caesar recognized troop psychology as an important tactical variable that could be manipulated through ritual and supernatural portents. The War Scroll mirrors these practices in a way that supports reading it as a similar effort to manipulate troop psychology arising under the influence of-and perhaps in reaction against-Greco-Roman military practice.

تاريخ نشر

2009

توصيف ظاهري

213-241

عنوان

Journal for the Study of Judaism

شماره جلد

40/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0631

اصطلاح موضوعی

DEAD SEA SCROLLS

اصطلاح موضوعی

JEWISH APOCALYPTIC

اصطلاح موضوعی

MILITARY THEORY

اصطلاح موضوعی

RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE

اصطلاح موضوعی

WAR SCROLL

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Steven Weitzman

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/157006309X410653

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y