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The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible: Rhetorical Strategies for Survival

by Hanne Løland Levinson (university Of Minnesota)

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

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This is the first book to systematically investigate the texts in the Hebrew Bible in which a character expresses a wish to die. Contrary to previous scholarship on these texts that assumed these death wishes were simply a desire to escape suffering, Hanne L land Levinson employs narrative criticism and conversation analysis, together with diachronic methods, to carefully hear each death-wish text in its literary context. She demonstrates that death wishes embody powerful, multi-faceted rhetorical strategies. Grouping the death-wish texts into four main rhetorical strategies of negotiation, expression of despair and anger, longing to undo one's existence, and wishing for a different reality, L land Levinson portrays the complex reasons why characters in the Hebrew Bible wish for death. She concludes that the death wishes navigate the tension between longing for death and fighting for survival - a tension that many live with also today as they attempt to claim agency and autonomy in life.
The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible: Rhetorical Strategies for Survival and Reflections On The Psalms
Reflections On The PsalmsThe Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible: Rhetorical Strategies for Survival

  • Author

    Hanne Løland Levinson (university Of Minnesota)

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    September 2021

  • Weight

    400g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781108833653

  • ISBN-10

    1108833659

  • Eden Code

    5515018

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