Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis : evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 /
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 peopl...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
W. de Gruyter,
2008.
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| Series: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ;
382. |
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Table of 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.