Hands, Heads, and Feet: Body Parts as Poetic Device in Judges 4-5
Scholars have identified lists of body parts as a compositional device in Biblical Hebrew poetry and as a way to highlight key themes in the biblical text or uncover hidden meanings. In addition, body parts have been given metaphorical and euphemistic senses. In this article I propose that body part...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Scholar's Press
[2017]
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Journal of Biblical literature
Year: 2017, Volume: 136, Issue: 4, Pages: 801-819 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Judge 4-5
/ Member of the body
/ Poetry
/ Space perception
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Judges
B Human body in the Bible B biblical Hebrew poetry B SISERA (Biblical figure) B Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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