Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 /
Bergmann, Claudia D.
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 für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Bd. 382 0934-2575 ; . - Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Electronic books.
BS1199.M45 / B47 2008
220.6/4
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 für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Bd. 382 0934-2575 ; . - Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Electronic books.
BS1199.M45 / B47 2008
220.6/4