evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 Bergmann, Claudia D. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. gw Berlin New York W. de Gruyter 2008 monographic eng

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x, 267 p. 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. Claudia D. Bergmann. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Criticism, interpretation, etc Metaphor in the Bible Disasters Religious aspects Childbirth Biblical teaching Childbirth Religious aspects Literature, Ancient History and criticism Metaphor in literature BS1199.M45 B47 2008eb 220.6/4 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10282649 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10282649 CaPaEBR 080630 ebr10282649