Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis : evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18

1. Verfasser: Bergmann, Claudia D.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berlin : New York. deGruyter, 2008.
Umfang/Format: x, 267 p. ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Bd. 382
ISBN: 9783110200423
ISSN: 0934-2575 ;
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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 Hebrew 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.

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