Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible - Rhetorical Strategies for Survival

List of contents

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?

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Hanne Lland Levinson, Hanne Løland Levinson, Hanne Loland (University of Minnesota) Levinson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781108833653
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83365-3
• No. of pages: 275
• Series: Society for Old Testament Stud; Society for Old Testament Study Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Bibles, Christianity, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament / General, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Old Testaments