Title: Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis
Description: Crises and catastrophes of all kinds have always confronted humans with great challenges. The present study examines the question of how literary texts process and deal with these challenges through the imaginary world of metaphors. It concentrates on the metaphor of childbirth, which compares people racked with crisis to women in labour (and sometimes vice versa). The texts examined are taken from the Ancient Orient and the Old Testament, together with a text exemplar from the Qumran corpus, which takes up the metaphor of childbirth and develops it further.
Subjects: Childbirth, Metaphor in literature, Metaphor in the Bible, Ancient Literature, Disasters, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., o. t., Childbirth, religious aspects, Dead sea scrolls, Literature, ancient, history and criticism