Smith explores the commemoration of war and warrior culture; three warrior pairs in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Israel; human and divine warriors in the Ugaritic texts; and Israelite warrior poetry in the early iron age. Among specific topics are warrior culture between literary representation and cultural reality, gender inversion in the poetry of heroic pairs, heroes in the story of Aqhat, divine warriors in the Baal Cycle, the problem of dating early Israelite poetry and the poem of Judges 5, the lamentation over fallen warriors in 2 Samuel 1:19-27, and the passing of warrior poetry in the era of prosaic heroes. Annotation 2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
