Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis
Subtitle: evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18
By: Claudia D. Bergmann.
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft -- Bd. 382
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9783110200423
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Metaphor in the Bible; Disasters -- Religious aspects; Childbirth -- Biblical teaching; Childbirth -- Religious aspects; Dead Sea scrolls; Literature, Ancient -- History and criticism; Metaphor in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The scope of this book; title: Definitions of metaphor; title: The approach to metaphor in this book; title: Birth as event and metaphor in the ancient Near East; title: The sources; title: The experience of birth; title: The experience of birth becomes a metaphor; title: Birth as event and metaphor in the Hebrew Bible; title: Birth as an event in the Hebrew Bible; title: Birth as a metaphor in the Bebrew Bible; title: The biblical birth metaphor for cases of local crisis; title: War imagery and bad news; title: War imagery; title: Divine punishment imagery; title: The biblical birth metaphor for cases of universal crisis; title: Texts; title: The biblical birth metaphor for cases of personal crisis; title: Engulfment imagery; title: War imagery; title: Prophetic vision imagery; title: 1QH XI, 1-18: the birth metaphor at Qumran; title: 1QH XI, 1-18 within the corpus of the Hodayot; title: The identity of the mothers and the children in 1QH XI, 1-18; title: Interpreting 1QG XI, 1-18 in light of the birth metaphor; title: 1QH XI, 1-18 : personal and universal crisis.