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Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 2008

1 online resource (x, 267 p.)

ISBN 9783110200423 (clothbound : alk. paper)

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, ISSN 0934-2575 ; Bd. 382

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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