| Description |
1 online resource (x, 267 pages) |
| Series |
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 0934-2575 ; Bd. 382 |
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Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 382.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- The scope of this book -- Definitions of metaphor -- The approach to metaphor in this book -- Birth as event and metaphor in the ancient Near East -- The sources -- The experience of birth -- The experience of birth becomes a metaphor -- Birth as event and metaphor in the Hebrew Bible -- Birth as an event in the Hebrew Bible -- Birth as a metaphor in the Bebrew Bible -- The biblical birth metaphor for cases of local crisis -- War imagery and bad news -- War imagery -- Divine punishment imagery -- The biblical birth metaphor for cases of universal crisis -- Texts -- The biblical birth metaphor for cases of personal crisis -- Engulfment imagery -- War imagery -- Prophetic vision imagery -- 1QH XI, 1-18: the birth metaphor at Qumran -- 1QH XI, 1-18 within the corpus of the Hodayot -- The identity of the mothers and the children in 1QH XI, 1-18 -- Interpreting 1QG XI, 1-18 in light of the birth metaphor -- 1QH XI, 1-18 : personal and universal crisis |
| Summary |
Crises and catastrophes of all kinds have always confronted humans with great challenges. The present study examines the question of how literary texts process and deal with these challenges through the imaginary world of metaphors. It concentrates on the metaphor of childbirth, which compares people racked with crisis to women in labour (and sometimes vice versa). The texts examined are taken from the Ancient Orient and the Old Testament, together with a text exemplar from the Qumran corpus, which takes up the metaphor of childbirth and develops it further |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Old Testament. fast (OCoLC)fst01808092 |
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Bibel Altes Testament gnd |
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Qumrantexte gnd |
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Bible. A.T. -- Critique, interprétation, etc. ram |
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Metaphor in the Bible.
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Disasters -- Religious aspects.
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Childbirth -- Biblical teaching
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Childbirth -- Religious aspects.
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Dead Sea scrolls
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Literature, Ancient -- History and criticism
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Metaphor in literature.
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Childbirth -- Religious aspects.
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Disasters -- Religious aspects.
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Literature, Ancient.
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Metaphor in literature.
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Metaphor in the Bible.
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Krise
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Geburt
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Metapher
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Métaphore dans la Bible.
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Littérature assyro-babylonienne.
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Catastrophes -- Enseignement biblique.
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Naissance dans la Bible.
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Manuscrits de la Mer Morte.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110209815 |
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3110209810 |
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1283428768 |
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9781283428767 |
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9786613428769 |
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6613428760 |
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