Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 / [electronic resource] :
Claudia D. Bergmann.
- Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 2008.
- x, 267 p.
- Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Bd. 382 0934-2575 ; .
- Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; Bd. 382. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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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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 literature.