Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis Evidence from the Ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 1st Edition – PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable
Author(s): Claudia D. Bergmann
Publisher: De Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110200423
Edition: 1st Edition
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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.
