Jews and War - The Long Story

There's a new book kpublished entitled, War and Peace in Jewish Tradition: From the Biblical World to the Present and its edited by Yigal Levin and Amnon Shapira (and I am guessing its translated from the Hebrew in part as I seem to recall some of the titles).

At $140.00, all I get is to look at the table of contents of a book that explores the concepts of war and peace throughout the history of Judaism including personal and collective morality in warfare, survival though a long and often violent history, and creation of some of the world’s great cultural assets, in literature, philosophy and religion, as well as in the fields of community life and social autonomy:-

Part I: War and Peace in the Bible
1. David Elgavish: The Freeing of Captives in the Ancient Near East and in the Bible
2. Amihai Nachshon: “Set Bread and Water before Them” (2 Kings 6:22): Elisha’s Order to Treat the Enemy with Mercy and its Implications
3. Yigal Levin: The Wars of Joshua – Weaning Away from the Divine
4. David Calabro: “He Teaches My Hands to War”: The Semiotics of Ritual Hand Gestures in Ancient Israelite Warfare
5. Jacob L. Wright: “Human, All Too Human” – Royal Name-Making in Wartime
6. Amnon Shapira: Civil War in the Bible – An Unsolved Problem
7. Meir Bar-Ilan: Internecine Wars in Biblical Israel
Part II: Theoretical Aspects of War in Rabbinic Thought
8. Joseph Isaac Lifshitz: War and Aesthetics in Jewish Law
9. Yishai Kiel: The Morality of War in Rabbinic Literature: The Call for Peace and the Limitation of the Siege
10. Avinoam Rosenak and Alick Isaacs: Peace, Secularism and Religion
11. Isaac Hershkowitz: Moral Considerations relating to Criticism of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Rabbinic Literature and the Just War Theory
12. Kalman Neuman: The Law of Obligatory War and Israeli Reality
Part III: War and Peace in Modern Jewish Thought and Practice
13. Gil Ribak: “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. Yossi Goldstein: Ben Gurion and the Onset of War
15. Ziva Feldman: The Journey After – Of One who Saw the Horrors of War: A Study of Orpaz's The Voyage of Daniel
Part IV: Israel, War, Ethics and the Media
16. Yoel Cohen: War, Religion and Israel’s Foreign Press Corps
17. Carol Lea Clark: The New York Times’ Coverage of the Gaza War: An Apologia
18. Yuval Cherlow: Media Ethics in Times of War

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