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Mourning Cry and Woe Oracle

By Waldemar Janzen

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
1972
ISBN
311003848X, 9783110038484
ISSN
0934-2575
Google Books ID
xiSjr34c0eEC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3626781 bytes)
Series
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 125
Pages
viii+92\102
Topic
Religion
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-06-09 18:42:08
Old Testament Criticism Interpretation Bible Study

Description

This volume, part of the author's Harvard doctoral dissertation (the other part being a study of 'ašrê as blessing formula), makes an important contribution to our understanding of the use of hôy, "woe (to)", in the prophets. J. criticizes effectively the usual views of the word: that, paired with 'ašrê, it is a weakened form of curse (Mowinckel); that its origin is in tribal wisdom and that its function is mainly didactic (Gerstenberger and Wolff); that it is to be classed simply as a variant of the prophetic Gerichtswort (Westermann). He quite rightly insists on the funerary lament as the original Sitz im Leben of the prophetic hôy of vengeance.

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