TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bergmann,Claudia D.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis: evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 
T2  - Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft,
AV  - BS1199.M45 B47 2008
U1  - 220.6/4 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Berlin, New York
PB  - W. de Gruyter
KW  - Bible
KW  - O.T
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Dead Sea scrolls
KW  - Metaphor in the Bible
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Childbirth
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Literature, Ancient
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Metaphor in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
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ER  -