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Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis : evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 /
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 peopl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
W. de Gruyter,
2008.
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| Colección: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ;
382. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783110209815 3110209810 1283428768 9781283428767 9786613428769 6613428760 |
| ISSN: | 0934-2575 ; |