Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis: evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible and 1QH XI,1 - 18
Introduction -- The scope of this book -- Definitions of metaphor -- The approach to metaphor in this book -- Birth as event and metaphor in the ancient Near East -- The sources -- The experience of birth -- The experience of birth becomes a metaphor -- Birth as event and metaphor in the Hebrew Bibl...