Author: Katherine E. Southwood
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000163415
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job’s body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray. A key contribution of this monograph is to highlight how the perspective of illness as retribution is powerfully refuted in Job’s speeches and, in particular, to show how this is achieved through comedy. Comedy in Job is a powerful weapon used to expose and ridicule the idea of retribution. Rejecting the approach of retrospective diagnosis, this monograph carefully analyses the expression of pain in Job focusing specifically on somatic language used in the deity attack metaphors, in the deity surveillance metaphors and in the language connected to the body and social status. These metaphors are analysed in a comparative way using research from medical anthropology and sociology which focuses on illness narratives and expressions of pain. Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising will be of interest to anyone working on the Book of Job, as well as those with an interest in suffering and pain in the Hebrew Bible more broadly.
Author: Danilo Verde
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 1646022998
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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Over the last few decades, the field of trauma studies has shed new light on biblical texts that deal with individual and collective catastrophe. In The Language of Trauma in the Psalms, Danilo Verde advances the conversation, moving beyond the emphasis on healing that prevails in most literary trauma studies. Using the lens of cognitive linguistics and combining insights from trauma studies and redaction criticism, Verde explores how trauma is expressed linguistically in the book of Psalms, how trauma-related language was rooted in ancient Israel’s external realities, and how psalms helped define Yehud’s cultural trauma in the Persian period (539–331 BCE). Rather than assuming the psalmists’ personal experiences are reflected in these texts, Verde focuses on the linguistic strategies used to express trauma in the Psalms, especially references to the body and highly dramatic metaphors. Current analyses often approach trauma texts as tools intended to help sufferers heal. Verde contends that many group laments in the book of Psalms were transmitted not only to heal but also to wound the community, ensuring that the pain of a previous generation was not forgotten. The Language of Trauma in the Psalms shifts our understanding of trauma in biblical texts and will appeal to literary trauma scholars as well as those interested in ancient Israel.
Author: Joel A. J. Atwood
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004525394
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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This work provides a new, integrated approach to analysing the meaning and use of complex nouns in the Hebrew Bible, focussed on anthropological uses of the word, רוח.
Author: Hanne Løland Levinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108983456
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 197
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This is the first book to systematically investigate the texts in the Hebrew Bible in which a character expresses a wish to die. Contrary to previous scholarship on these texts that assumed these death wishes were simply a desire to escape suffering, Hanne Løland Levinson employs narrative criticism and conversation analysis, together with diachronic methods, to carefully hear each death-wish text in its literary context. She demonstrates that death wishes embody powerful, multi-faceted rhetorical strategies. Grouping the death-wish texts into four main rhetorical strategies of negotiation, expression of despair and anger, longing to undo one's existence, and wishing for a different reality, Løland Levinson portrays the complex reasons why characters in the Hebrew Bible wish for death. She concludes that the death wishes navigate the tension between longing for death and fighting for survival - a tension that many live with also today as they attempt to claim agency and autonomy in life.
Author: Mason D. Lancaster
Publisher: SBL Press
ISBN: 1628375418
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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The book of Hosea is a labyrinth of juxtaposed images for God and God’s people, with such disparate metaphors as God the devouring lion and God the reviving dew. In Hosea’s God: A Metaphorical Theology, Mason D. Lancaster demonstrates that recent advances in metaphor theory help untangle these divergent portrayals of God. He analyzes fifteen metaphor clusters in Hosea 4–14 individually, then discerns patterns and reversals between the clusters. Finally, respecting the ancient value for emphasizing individual aspects of a depiction over a homogenized picture of the whole, the book identifies five characteristics of God prominent among the metaphors of Hosea. Based on this analysis, Lancaster asserts that Hosea’s metaphorical depiction of Yahweh ultimately derives from the primacy of Yahweh’s fidelity to Israel.
Author: Hanneke van Loon
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004380930
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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In Metaphors in the Discussion on Suffering in Job 3–31, Hanneke van Loon offers a new approach to the theme of suffering in the book of Job. Her analysis of metaphors demonstrates that Job goes through different stages of existential suffering in chapters 3–14 and that he addresses the social dimension of his suffering in chapters 17 and 19. Van Loon claims that Job’s existential suffering ends in 19:25, and that chapters 23–31 reflect a process in which Job translates his own experience into a call upon the audience to adopt a new attitude toward the unfortunate ones in society. The theoretical approach to metaphors is based on insights from cognitive linguistics.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004536299
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 439
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Nineteen friends and colleagues present this Festschrift to Ellen van Wolde, honouring her life-long contribution to Biblical studies. The contributions focus on the major topics that define her research: the books of Genesis and Job, and the Hebrew language.
Author: Anja Marschall
Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
ISBN: 337407698X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Die internationalen Beiträge des Sammelbands untersuchen das spannungsvolle Wechselspiel zwischen Selbstreflexion, Klage und Streit innerhalb der Worte Hiobs. Der erste Teil beleuchtet sowohl selbstreflexive Prozesse als auch anthropologische Grundbestimmungen im Buch Hiob. Im zweiten Abschnitt analysieren die Autorinnen und Autoren Hiobs Gottesbild sowie die von ihm adaptierte Gebetssprache. Dabei kommen neben intertextuellen Bezügen zu den Psalmen auch humorvolle Anspielungen und traumatologische Implikationen der Worte Hiobs in den Fokus. Der letzte Teil ist der sozialen Ausrichtung der Worte Hiobs gewidmet, die nicht nur selbstbezogen reflektieren und zu Gott klagen, sondern auch soziale Zusammenhänge aufdecken und Hiobs Mitmenschen in die Verantwortung nehmen. Mit Beiträgen von Nikita Artemov, Brennan Breed, Katharine Dell, Juliane Eckstein, Stefan Fischer, Tod Linafelt, Will Kynes, Anja Marschall, Brittany Melton, Hanneke van Loon, Jürgen van Oorschot und Patricia Vesely. [Job's Speeches. Between Self-Reflection, Lament, and Dispute] The contributions in this anthology explore the intricate interplay between self-reflection, lament, and dispute within Job's speeches. The first section sheds light on both self-reflective processes and fundamental anthropological determinations present in the Book of Job. In the second section, the authors analyse Job's portrayal of God and his use of prayer language. Alongside intertextual references to the Psalms, humorous allusions and traumatological implications of Job's words also come into focus. The final section is dedicated to the social relevance of Job's speeches, which not only reflect on himself and lament to God, but also reveal social connections and hold Job's peers accountable.
Author: David Arnow
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0827615205
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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The first book to plumb the depths of Judaism’s abundant reservoir of hope, Choosing Hope journeys from biblical times to our day to explore nine fundamental sources of hope in Judaism.
Author: Alison Lo
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004133204
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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This volume argues that Job 28, as Job's words in its present position, has a special rhetorical function within the whole book, and more specifically within the context of chapters 22-31
