Drought, famine, plague and pestilence
Subtitle: ancient Israel's understandings of and responses to natural catastrophes
By: by Warren Robertson.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Natural disasters -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Punishment -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Providence and government of God -- Judaism; Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapt. I. Introduction; title: Thesis and purpose of this study; title: Definitions of terms; title: Methodology and presuppositions; title: Why study understandings of and responses to natural catastrophes?; title: A brief survey of related studies; title: Specific studies; title: Outline of this study; title: chapt. II. Natural catastrophes in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds; title: chapt. III. Social theory: doxa, crisis and cognitive dissonance; title: The Durkheimian tradition; title: Pierre Bourdieu and doxa; title: Leon Festinger and cognitive dissonance; title: chapt. IV. Understandings of and responses to natural catastrophe among peoples of the ancient Near East/ancient Israel; title: Treaty curse tradition; title: The flood tradition; title: Exodus 32:1, 35; title: Numbers 16; title: 1 Samuel 4:1b, 7:1; title: 2 Samuel 24:1, 24; title: Prophets; title: Discussion; title: Summary; title: Chapt. V. Practical and ritualistic responses to natural catastrophes among peoples of the ancient Near East, including ancient Israel; title: Practical responses; title: Ritualistic responses; title: Chapt. VI. Summary and conclusions; title: Appendix a. The late Israelite/Judean monarchy: an era of cumulative trauma; title: Appendix b. Durkheimian social theory in Old Testament study and recent sociology; title: Appendix c. Curses from ancient Near Eastern texts.