“You Eat, but you Never Have Enough …”:                Fear of Famine and Food Shortage in the Hebrew Bible                and the Ancient Near East

Sara Kipfer

doi:10.13109/wdor.2021.51.1.58

“You Eat, but you Never Have Enough …”: Fear of Famine and Food Shortage in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East

Die Welt des Orients ◽

10.13109/wdor.2021.51.1.58 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 58-83

Author(s):

Sara Kipfer

Keyword(s):

Hebrew Bible ◽

Near East ◽

Food Shortage ◽

Ancient Near East

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Foreign Women—Women in Foreign Lands: Studies on Foreignness and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East in the First Millennium BCE ed. by Angelika Berlejung and Marianne Grohmann

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly ◽

10.1353/cbq.2021.0034 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 83 (1) ◽

pp. 162-164

Author(s):

A. Jordan Schmidt

Keyword(s):

Hebrew Bible ◽

Near East ◽

Ancient Near East ◽

First Millennium ◽

And Gender

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“Literary” Craft and Performative Power in the Ancient Near East: The Hebrew Bible in Context

Approaches to Literary Readings of Ancient Jewish Writings ◽

10.1163/9789004258563_003 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 17-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Hebrew Bible ◽

Near East ◽

Ancient Near East ◽

Performative Power

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Praise by animals in the Hebrew Bible

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament ◽

10.1177/0309089219862824 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 500-513

Author(s):

Peter Joshua Atkins

Keyword(s):

Hebrew Bible ◽

Near East ◽

Ancient Near East ◽

Near Eastern ◽

Biblical Texts

Among ancient Near Eastern societies was a widespread and particularly intriguing belief that animals were able to worship and praise deities. This study shows the Hebrew Bible evidences the idea that animals were capable of praising God too and proceeds to observe and document the presence of numerous examples of this in specific biblical texts. Through understanding the place of animals in the Hebrew Bible, and their perceived activity in the ancient Near East, this study suggests animals are distinct agents of praise in their own right in the biblical texts.

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Chapter Six. Expansion of the Linguistic Context of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: Hebrew among the Languages of the Ancient Near East

Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. III: From Modernism to Post-Modernism. Part I: The Nineteenth Century - a Century of Modernism and Historicism ◽

10.13109/9783666540219.134 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 134-168

Author(s):

Holger Gzella

Keyword(s):

Old Testament ◽

Hebrew Bible ◽

Near East ◽

Ancient Near East ◽

Linguistic Context

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Tony W. Cartledge. Vows in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 147. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992. xxxi, 199 pp.

AJS Review ◽

10.1017/s0364009400007017 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 391-392

Author(s):

Jacob Milgrom

Keyword(s):

Old Testament ◽

Hebrew Bible ◽

Supplement Series ◽

Near East ◽

Ancient Near East

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Forestalling Doom: “Apotropaic Intercession” in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East By Marion W. Broida. AOAT 417; Münster, Germany: Ugarit-Verlag, 2014. Pp. xx + 282. Hardcover, $114.00. ISBN 978-3-86835-110-1.

Near Eastern Archaeology ◽

10.5615/neareastarch.79.2.0122 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 79 (2) ◽

pp. 122-123

Author(s):

Shalom E. Holtz

Keyword(s):

Hebrew Bible ◽

Near East ◽

Ancient Near East

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Intersections between Iconographic and Gendered Approaches to Biblical Interpretation

Biblical Interpretation ◽

10.1163/15685152-00253p03 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 320-341

Author(s):

Brian Charles DiPalma

Keyword(s):

Gender Studies ◽

Hebrew Bible ◽

Near East ◽

Biblical Interpretation ◽

Biblical Studies ◽

Ancient Near East ◽

Visual Images

This paper explores the intersections between two approaches to biblical interpretation: iconographic and gendered approaches. Focusing on the ways that visual images from the ancient Near East have been incorporated in studying gender in the Hebrew Bible, I identify four intersections. These examples demonstrate that participating in an iconographic turn is an important way that gender studies in the Hebrew Bible can develop. I also seek to show that the interactions can be mutually fruitful. In other words, including gender as an area of inquiry is a way that the iconographic turn itself can develop in biblical studies. 

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