Enduring exil e the metaphorization of exile in the Hebrew Bible /

Enduring exil e the metaphorization of exile in the Hebrew Bible /

During the Second Temple period, the Babylonian exile came to signify not only the deportations and forced migrations of the sixth century B.C.E., but also a variety of other alienations. These alienations included political disenfranchisement, dissatisfaction with the status quo, and an existential...

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Main Author: Halvorson-Taylor, Martien A.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements 141.
Vetus Testamentum Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004264991.

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Bible. > O.T. > Isaiah > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > O.T. > Jeremiah > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > O.T. > Zechariah I-VIII > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > O.T. > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exile (Punishment) > Biblical teaching.
Metaphor in the Bible.

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Call Number: BS1199.B3 H35 2011

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Summary:During the Second Temple period, the Babylonian exile came to signify not only the deportations and forced migrations of the sixth century B.C.E., but also a variety of other alienations. These alienations included political disenfranchisement, dissatisfaction with the status quo, and an existential alienation from God. Enduring Exile charts the transformation of exile from a historically bound and geographically constrained concept into a symbol for physical, mental, and spiritual distress. Beginning with preexilic materials, Halvorson-Taylor locates antecedents for the metaphorization of exile in the articulation of exile as treaty curse; continuing through the early postexilic period, she recovers an evolving concept of exile within the intricate redaction of Jeremiah's Book of Consolation (Jeremiah 30-31), Second and Third Isaiah (Isaiah 40-66), and First Zechariah (Zechariah 1-8). The formation of these works illustrates the thought, description, and exegesis that fostered the use of exile as a metaphor for problems that could not be resolved by a return to the land- and gave rise to a powerful trope within Judaism and Christianity: the motif of the "enduring exile."
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-213) and index.
ISBN:9789004203716
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