The Death Wish In The Hebrew Bible

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The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible

The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9781108983457
ISBN-13 : 1108983456
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Book Synopsis The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible by : Hanne Løland Levinson

Download or read book The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible written by Hanne Løland Levinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Løland 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, Løland 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.


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