“You eat, but you never have enough …”: fear of famine and food shortage in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Famine belongs to one of several divine punishments which are referred to again and again in the Hebrew Bible and throughout the Ancient Near East. Oracles and curses mention famine as a future-conditional event. This paper focuses on a subgroup of texts announcing not only famine and aggregate food...
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Jun 2021
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Die Welt des Orients
Year: 2021, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 58-83 |
RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BC Ancient Orient; religion HB Old Testament KBL Near East and North Africa |
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