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Enduring exile : the metaphorization of exile in the Hebrew Bible /
During the Second Temple period, the Babylonian exile came to signify not only the deportations and forced migrations of the sixth century B.C.E., but also a variety of other alienations. These alienations included political disenfranchisement, dissatisfaction with the status quo, and an existential...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Colección: | Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ;
v. 141. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | During the Second Temple period, the Babylonian exile came to signify not only the deportations and forced migrations of the sixth century B.C.E., but also a variety of other alienations. These alienations included political disenfranchisement, dissatisfaction with the status quo, and an existential alienation from God. Enduring Exile charts the transformation of exile from a historically bound and geographically constrained concept into a symbol for physical, mental, and spiritual distress. Beginning with preexilic materials, Halvorson-Taylor locates antecedents for the metaphorization of exi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 230 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004203716 9004203710 1283119307 9781283119306 9786613119308 661311930X |
| ISSN: | 0083-5889 ; |