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Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis :evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18

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Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis :evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin ; New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

W. de Gruyter

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Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fغur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft,4390-5752 ;Bd. 283

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Claudia D. Bergmann

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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, 1-81: the birth metaphor at Qumran -- 1QH XI, 1-81 within the corpus of the Hodayot -- The identity of the mothers and the children in 1QH XI, 1-81 -- Interpreting 1QG XI, 1-81 in light of the birth metaphor -- 1QH XI, 1-81 : personal and universal crisis

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، Metaphor in the Bible

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Religious aspects ، Disasters

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Biblical teaching ، Childbirth

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Religious aspects ، Childbirth

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، Dead Sea scrolls

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History and criticism ، Literature, Ancient

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، Metaphor in literature

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Bergmann, Claudia D.

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