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Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis: Evidence from the Ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 382)

By Bergmann , Claudia D.

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
3110200422, 9783110200423, 3110209810, 9783110209815
LCC
BS1199.M45 B47 2008
Open Library ID
OL16973740M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2228001 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
270\278
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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.

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