Imagery and Analogy in Psalm 58:4-9
This article treats the images and logic of Ps 58:4-9. Drawing on Stanley Tambiah’s work on “performative analogies,” it compares the images of serpents and unborn children as well as the ways in which these images are used in Ps 58 with incantations from Syro-Mesopotamia. It focuses on the similari...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2015, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 114-135 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Psalmen 58,4-9
/ Ancient Orient
/ Incantation
/ Figurative language
/ Serpents
/ Stillbirth
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| RelBib Classification: | BC Ancient Orient; religion HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Ps 58:4-9
incantation
imagery
analogy
serpents
childbirth
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