Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/oPi448 Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis Evidence from the Ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18 By: Claudia D. Bergmann Publisher: De Gruyter Print ISBN: 9783110200423, 3110200422 eText ISBN: 9783110209815, 3110209810 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2008 Format: PDF Available from $ 182.00 USD SKU 9783110209815 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.
