Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis [electronic resource] : evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 / Claudia D. Bergmann.

By: Bergmann, Claudia DContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; Bd. 382.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 2008Description: x, 267 pSubject(s): Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Dead Sea scrolls | Metaphor in the Bible | Disasters -- Religious aspects | Childbirth -- Biblical teaching | Childbirth -- Religious aspects | Literature, Ancient -- History and criticism | Metaphor in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 220.6/4 LOC classification: BS1199.M45 | B47 2008Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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.

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