"Schwert, Hunger, Seuche" als Kurzformel für den Untergang Jerusalems
Within the Hebrew Bible, terms for "pestilence" or "plague" mainly appear in connection to covenant, curses, and warfare. The essay locates the phenomenon within its ancient Near Eastern context and focuses on how the Hebrew texts describe and interpret this catastrophe. The pecu...
| Subtitles: | "Themenheft: Pest und andere Plagen. Vom Umgang mit Epidemien in der Antike" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
Evangelische Theologie
Year: 2021, Volume: 81, Issue: 5, Pages: 338-349 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ezekiel
/ Jeremiah
/ Plage
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament NBC Doctrine of God |
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| Summary: | Within the Hebrew Bible, terms for "pestilence" or "plague" mainly appear in connection to covenant, curses, and warfare. The essay locates the phenomenon within its ancient Near Eastern context and focuses on how the Hebrew texts describe and interpret this catastrophe. The peculiar triadic phrase "sword, hunger, pestilence", frequent in the books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, recalls the horrors of siege warfare, and especially the defeat of Jerusalem in 587 BCE. For the survivors of this catastrophe who seek to explain how this traumatic event could happen, the phrase serves as a literary topos for Yhwh's reaction to Israel's wrong-doings and as a shorthand for their cultural trauma. |
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| ISSN: | 2198-0470 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Evangelische Theologie
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14315/evth-2021-810505 |