The death wish in the Hebrew Bible: rhetorical strategies for survival
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Levinson, Hanne Løland, ca. 20./21. Jh., The death wish in the Hebrew Bible : Rhetorical Strategies for Survival] (2023) (Weingärtner, Martina)
[Rezension von: Levinson, Hanne Løland, ca. 20./21. Jh., The death wish in the Hebrew Bible : Rhetorical Strategies for Survival] (2023) (Kalmanofsky, Amy) |
| Series/Journal: | Society for Old Testament study monographs
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ Death
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Life
Biblical teaching
B Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc B Death Biblical teaching |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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