Maternal Grief In The Hebrew Bible

Author : Ekaterina E. Kozlova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198796870
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maternal Grief in the Hebrew Bible written by Ekaterina E. Kozlova and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting out from the observation made in the social sciences that maternal grief can at times be a motor of societal change, Ekaterina E. Kozlova demonstrates that a similar mechanism operates also in the biblical world. Kozlova argues that maternal grief is treated as a model or archetype of grief in biblical and Ancient Near Eastern literature. The work considers three narratives and one poem that illustrate the transformative power of maternal grief in the biblical presentation: Gen 21, Hagar and Ishmael in the desert; 2 Sam 21: 1-14, Rizpah versus King David; 2 Sam 14, the speech of the Tekoite woman; Jer 31: 15-22, Rachel weeping for her children. Although only one of the texts literally refers to a bereaved mother (2 Sam 21 on Rizpah), all four passages draw on the motif of maternal grief, and all four stage some form of societal transformation.

Author : Carolyn Sharp
Publisher : Kohlhammer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3170400819
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jeremiah 26-52 written by Carolyn Sharp and published by Kohlhammer Verlag. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This commentary illumines Jer 26-52 through historical, literary, feminist, and postcolonial analysis. Ideologies of subjugation and resistance are entangled in the Jeremiah traditions. The reader is guided through narratives of extreme violence, portrayals of iconic allies and adversaries, and complex gestures of scribal resilience. Judah's cultural trauma is refracted through prose that mimics Neo-Babylonian colonizing ideology, dramatic scenes of survival, and poetry alight with the desire for vengeance against enemies. The commentary's historical and literary arguments are enriched by insights from archaeology, feminist translation theory, and queer studies.

Author : David A. Bosworth
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506491049
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creation and Emotion in the Old Testament written by David A. Bosworth and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creation conjures emotion and thereby shapes how we think and act. People fear snakes and enclosed spaces, and delight in well-watered landscapes. Language about nature evokes these emotional meanings and their consequences. We may construe nature as a mother to enhance love of creation and motivate care for our common home. Mother nature becomes a caregiving source of life rather than an inert resource. Alternatively, we may focus on the dangers or uselessness of a swamp so that we may drain it and plant crops. Creation and the ways we speak about it reflect and shape emotion and influence behavior. Every reference to the natural word in biblical literature involves some emotional resonance. Any animal might have intruded into the paradise of Eden, but the biblical narrative gives this role to a snake. The serpent elicits ominous foreboding because snakes evoke fear and fascination. Isaiah amplifies the joy of Israel's restoration by depicting deserts transforming into fertile fields and creation itself rejoicing. Biblical authors draw on human emotional responsiveness to creation to express and elicit emotions. David A. Bosworth analyzes how biblical texts use creation to conjure emotion. He draws on the science of emotion, including research on human emotional responsiveness to nature. Ancient texts correlate with contemporary research on how human environments shape emotion and behavior. The chapters unfold how specific emotions emerge from biblical references to aspects of creation.

Author : Laura Quick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192598864
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible written by Laura Quick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible is the first monograph to treat dress and adornment in biblical literature in the English language. It moves beyond a description of these aspects of ancient life to encompass notions of interpersonal relationships and personhood that underpin practices of dress and adornment. Laura Quick explores the ramifications of body adornment in the biblical world, informed by a methodologically plural approach incorporating material culture alongside philology, textual exegesis, comparative evidence, and sociological models. Drawing upon and synthesizing insights from material culture and texts from across the eastern Mediterranean, the volume reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in biblical texts. It shows how body adornment can deepen understanding of attitudes towards the self in the ancient world. In Quick's reconstruction of ancient performances of the self, the body serves as the observed centre in which complex ideologies of identity, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and social status are articulated. The adornment of the body is thus an effective means of non-verbal communication, but one which at the same time is controlled by and dictated through normative social values. Exploring dress, adornment, and the body can therefore open up hitherto unexplored perspectives on these social values in the ancient world, an essential missing piece in understanding the social and cultural world which shaped the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Yamin Levy
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881256093
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confronting the Loss of a Baby written by Yamin Levy and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beth M. Stovell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498273718
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Motherhood written by Beth M. Stovell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motherhood provides a crucial place for exploring human life and its meaning. Within motherhood lies a deep tension between the pain, crisis, and association with death in motherhood and the joy, transformation, and life in motherhood. Few metaphors in Scripture (or in life) stand so firmly between life and death, love and loss, and joy and deep pain. After all, motherhood's meaning in part comes again and again at these crucial crossroads. Thus, motherhood has powerful implications for our biblical and theological understanding. Bringing together Jewish and ecumenical Christian scholars from North America, Oceania, and South America, this edited volume provides biblical and theological perspectives on understanding motherhood. The authors reflect upon a selection of biblical texts, systematic theologians, and Christian spiritual traditions to dialogue with the experience of maternity in its diverse manifestations. The purpose of the book is to provide essays that--through these biblical and theological lenses--engage the question of motherhood today, from the experience of pregnancy and birth, to raising children, to losing children and coping with grief. In this way, this volume helps to "make sense" of the complexity of motherhood.

Author : Sandy Falk
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1580236472
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Pregnancy Book written by Sandy Falk and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-of-its-kind guide to nourishing your pregnancy with wisdom from Jewish tradition. B’shah Tovah! You’re pregnant! With all the changes happening to your body right now, it would be easy to focus only on the physical aspects of this life-changing event. But pregnancy is also a spiritually meaningful period in life, a time to reflect and comfort the soul. The Jewish Pregnancy Book is the first resource to nurture the body, mind and soul of the pregnant woman by combining up-to-date medical information with spiritual nourishment from Jewish tradition. For the soul—Ancient and modern prayers and rituals for each stage of pregnancy, as well as traditional Jewish wisdom on pregnancy. For the body—Pre-natal Aleph-Bet yoga, a unique blend of yoga and spirituality inspired by the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. For the mind—Medical information on topics such as fetal development, pre-natal testing, and potential pregnancy problems, as well as discussions from a contemporary Jewish perspective on ethical issues such as selective reduction and home birth. In clear, easy-to-follow, accessible language, this groundbreaking handbook guides you through the miraculous and challenging process of creation, engaging your whole being in a uniquely Jewish way.

Author : Mayer Irwin Gruber
Publisher : University of South Florida
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Motherhood of God and Other Studies written by Mayer Irwin Gruber and published by University of South Florida. This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Author : Rebecca Faber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780842339957
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mother's Grief Observed written by Rebecca Faber and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Faber learned about grief when her toddler son drowned in the family pool. She offers you her experience in the hope that it can help you is your journey toward a God whose love is indeed stronger than death.

Author : Cynthia R. Chapman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030022480X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of the Mother written by Cynthia R. Chapman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father’s household Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Chapman draws on twenty years of research to uncover an underappreciated yet socially significant kinship unit in the Bible: “the house of the mother.” In households where a man had two or more wives, siblings born to the same mother worked to promote and protect one another’s interests. Revealing the hierarchies of the maternal houses and political divisions within the national house of Israel, this book provides us with a nuanced understanding of domestic and political life in ancient Israel.