Drought, Famine, Plague and Pestilence : : Ancient Israel's Understandings of and Responses to Natural Catastrophes / / Warren C. Robertson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• VerfasserIn: Robertson, Warren C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Biblical Studies ; 45
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; DEDICATION --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 2: NATURAL CATASTROPHES IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN AND MEDITERRANEAN WORLDS --; CHAPTER 3: SOCIAL THEORY: DOXA, CRISIS AND COGNITIVE DISSONANCE --; CHAPTER 4: UNDERSTANDINGS OF AND RESPONSES TO NATURAL CATASTROPHES AMONG PEOPLES OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND ANCIENT ISRAEL --; CHAPTER 5: PRACTICAL AND RITUALISTIC RESPONSES TO NATURAL CATASTROPHES AMONG PEOPLES OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, INCLUDING ANCIENT ISRAEL --; CHAPTER 6: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS --; APPENDIX A: THE LATE ISRAELITE/JUDEAN MONARCHY: AN ERA OF CUMULATIVE TRAUMA --; APPENDIX B: DURKHEIMIAN SOCIAL THEORY IN OLD TESTAMENT STUDY AND RECENT SOCIOLOGY --; APPENDIX C: CURSES FROM ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN TEXTS --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463236199; 9783110663037; 9783110716849
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463236199
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Warren C. Robertson.

This interdisciplinary study integrates textual analysis of the Hebrew Bible and comparable ancient Near Eastern material with social theory and archaeology in order to articulate the ancient Israelites' taken-for-granted understandings of natural disasters, their intellectual and theological challenges to those understandings, and their intellectual and theological reconstructions thereof.