Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period.
The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter, Inc.
2014
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| In: | Year: 2014 |
| Reviews: | Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period (2016) (Kipfer, Sara, 1980 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Ser
v.461 |
| Further subjects: | B
Water ; Paletine ; Social aspects
B Water in rabbinical literature B Electronic books B Water ; Religious aspects ; Judaism |
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Volltext (Aggregator) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9783110348828 |
| Summary: | The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world. Intro -- Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- Thinking of Water in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Judah: An Exploration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Thinking of 'Water': 'Water' and YHWH -- 3. Thinking of 'Water': 'Water' and YHWH-related Concepts -- 4. 'Water' and creation stories/acts of ordering -- 5. 'Water' and Condition Change -- 6. Conclusion -- Sacred Springs and Liminal Rivers: Water and Prophecy in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean -- 1. Water as Source of Life and Purity -- 2. Water as Medium of Divine Agency -- 3. Water as Destructive Power -- 4. Conclusion -- Water(s) of Abundance in the Ancient Near East and in Hebrew Bible Texts: A Sign of Kingship -- 1. The Water(s) of Abundance and Mesopotamian Theology of Creation and Royal Mediation -- 2. Transmission of the Motif of the Water(s) of abundance to the West -- 3. Radical Transformation and Theological Renewal in ancient Israelite Texts: Yhwh as king alone -- 4. Conclusion -- The Nile in Biblical Memory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries -- 3. The Nile as a Site of Memory in the Pentateuch -- 4. The Nile as a Site of Memory in the Prophetic Texts -- 4.1 Jeremiah 46:7-8 -- 4.2 Ezekiel 29:1-16 -- 4.3 Zechariah 10:11 -- 4.4 Isaiah 37:24-25 and 2 Kings 19:23-24 -- 4.5 Amos 9:5 -- 4.6 Nahum 3:8 -- 4.7 Isaiah 19 -- 5. Conclusion -- Polluted, Bitter, and Sweet Water as a Matter of Ethnic Identity-Formation in Persian Yehud -- 1. Summary of my argument -- 2. Theories of Ethnic and National Identity -- 3. Exod 15:22-26: Basic exegetical observations -- 4. What is "didacticism"? -- 5. Teaching and testing-the prison-house of didacticism? -- 6. Concluding interpretation of water in Exod 1-15. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (612 pages) |
| ISBN: | 3110349663 |