Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Sex, Hunting, and Traps: A Network of Metaphors in Anti-Foreign Polemics in the Hebrew Bible

Sex, Hunting, and Traps: A Network of Metaphors in Anti-Foreign Polemics in the Hebrew Bible

Mitra, Yisrael Abir

Hardcover

Series: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, Book 208

JudaismBible Studies

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 9004738533
ISBN13: 9789004738539
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Why does the Hebrew Bible label a wide range of religious, political, and commercial practices as whoring? Why are both Israelite and non-Israelite cities sometimes called whores in biblical polemical texts? Why are foreign women, foreign gods, and some of Israel's leaders seen as traps? Drawing on insights from metaphor theories, material evidence of ancient Levantine hunting and trapping methods, and ancient, medieval, and modern interpretations of biblical texts, this monograph offers the first systematic exploration of a metaphor network in the Hebrew Bible in which imagery of illicit sex, hunting, and trapping play a central role. It illuminates how interactions between these concepts generate alluring yet threatening images of what biblical authors perceive as foreign or other.

Also in

Bible Studies

View All