Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis
Evidence from the Ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18
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Word Count
69,250 words, Guess
Page Count
277 pages
Physical Format
Electronic resource
Identifiers
- Internet Archivechildbirthasmeta00berg
- Internet Archivechildbirthasmeta00berg_009
- ISBN-103110209810
- ISBN-139783110209815
- OCLC Control Number476275909
and 2 more
- Better World Books9783110209815
- Open LibraryOL25538429M
Classifications
- DDC220.64
- LCCBS1199.M45B47 2008
- LCCBS410.Z5 Bd. 382
and 1 more
- LCCBS1199.M45
Description
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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