Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis [electronic resource] : evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 / Claudia D. Bergmann.
Bergmann, Claudia D.
2008
BS1199.M45 B47 2008eb
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Title Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis [electronic resource] : evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 / Claudia D. Bergmann.
Author Bergmann, Claudia D.
ISBN 9783110200423 (clothbound : alk. paper)
Imprint Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 2008.
Language English
Description x, 267 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number BS1199.M45 B47 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 220.6/4
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; Bd. 382.
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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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