Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis : evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 / / Claudia D. Bergmann.
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Superior document: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Bd. 382 |
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Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ;
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Physical Description: | x, 267 p. |
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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.