03003nam a2200481 a 4500 EBC429277 MiAaPQ 20250821104356.0 m o d | cr cnu|||||||| 080630s2008 gw ob 001 0 eng 9783110209815 (electronic bk.) 9783110200423 (print) (MiAaPQ)EBC429277 (Au-PeEL)EBL429277 (CaPaEBR)ebr10282649 (CaONFJC)MIL342876 (OCoLC)476275909 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ BS1199.M45 B47 2008 220.6/4 22 Bergmann, Claudia D. 193403 Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis [electronic resource] : evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 / Claudia D. Bergmann. Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 2008. x, 267 p. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 0934-2575 ; Bd. 382 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 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. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Bible. O.T. Criticism, interpretation, etc. 193404 Dead Sea scrolls. 193405 Metaphor in the Bible. 193406 Disasters Religious aspects. 193407 Childbirth Biblical teaching. 193408 Childbirth Religious aspects. 193409 Literature, Ancient History and criticism. 193410 Metaphor in literature. 193411 Electronic books. 35142 ProQuest (Firm) 193412 ProQuest (Firm) Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; Bd. 382. 193413 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kuct-ebooks/detail.action?docID=429277 Click to View 248005 248005