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The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible - Hanne Løland Levinson

The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible

Rhetorical Strategies for Survival
Buch | Softcover
195 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-98654-0 (ISBN)
CHF 41,90 inkl. MwSt
The first book to explore the texts in the Hebrew Bible in which a character expresses a wish to die. The death wish is a powerful rhetorical strategy that provides an unrecognized source of empowerment for characters. Written to engage the general reader and students in religion and biblical studies.
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 and conversation analysis, together with diachronic methods, to carefully hear each death-wish text in its literary context. She demonstrates that death wishes embody powerful, multi-faceted rhetorical strategies. Grouping the death-wish texts into four main rhetorical strategies of negotiation, expression of despair and anger, longing to undo one's existence, and wishing for a different reality, Løland Levinson portrays the complex reasons why characters in the Hebrew Bible wish for death. She concludes that the death wishes navigate the tension between longing for death and fighting for survival - a tension that many live with also today as they attempt to claim agency and autonomy in life.

Hanne Løland Levinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her first book Silent or Salient Gender? (2008) received the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise. Her research interests include gender, metaphor, narrative analysis, and death in the Hebrew Bible. She co-founded the Society of Biblical Literature program unit on Metaphor Theory and the Hebrew Bible.

1. Introduction; 2. Death wish as a negotiation strategy; 3. Death wish in despair and anger; 4. Wishing away one's birth; 5. Death wishes as wishful thinking; 6. Wishing for death or fighting for life?

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Society for Old Testament Study Monographs
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 279 g
Themenwelt Religion / Theologie Christentum Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Judentum
ISBN-10 1-108-98654-4 / 1108986544
ISBN-13 978-1-108-98654-0 / 9781108986540
Zustand Neuware
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