Review of Everson, A. Joseph and Hyun Chul Paul Kim (eds.), The Desert Will Bloom: Poetic Visions in Isaiah (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009). Pp. xii+299. Softcover, US$37.95. ISBN 978-1-58983-425-5.

On Agricultural Imagery in Biblical Descriptions of Catastrophes

Journal of Ancient Judaism ◽

10.30965/21967954-00301002 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 2-14

Author(s):

Nili Samet

Keyword(s):

Hebrew Bible ◽

Mass Killing ◽

Near Eastern ◽

Biblical Literature ◽

Ancient Israel

This article examines the use of agricultural imagery in biblical literature to embody the destructive force of war and other mass catastrophes. Activities such as vintage, harvest, threshing, and wine-pressing serve as metaphors for the actions of slaughtering, demolition and mass killing. The paper discusses the Ancient Near Eastern origins of the imagery under discussion, and presents the relevant examples from the Hebrew Bible, tracing the development of this absorbing metaphor, and analyzing the different meanings attached to it in different contexts. It shows that the use of destructive agricultural imagery first emerges in ancient Israel as an instance of popular phraseology. In turn, the imagery is employed as a common prophetic motif. The prophetic books examined demonstrate how each prophet appropriates earlier uses of the imagery in prophetic discourse and adapts the agricultural metaphors to suit specific rhetorical needs.

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La musique sacralisée dans les œuvres de quelques écrivains romantiques

Quêtes littéraires ◽

10.31743/ql.4606 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 66-75

Author(s):

Anna Opiela

Keyword(s):

Correspondence Theory ◽

Poetic Visions

This article analyses poetic visions, based on synesthesia and referring to Swedenborg’s correspondence theory, evoked by listening to music. In these visions the musical impressions are in some way sanctified and they contribute to the development of the spiritual area. This aesthetic phenomenon is noticeable in Balzac’s novels. The music for him is the light penetrating the listener’s soul and a means of accessing divine mysteries. Similarly, in George Sand’s works music is the inspiration to create soulful poetic visions and the character of Consuelo who, by her singing, is vouchsafed by divine revelations.

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Nokhri, Ger, and the Art of Separation in the Hebrew Bible

10.1093/oso/9780198744900.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Adi Ophir ◽

Ishay Rosen-Zvi

Keyword(s):

Hebrew Bible ◽

Biblical Literature ◽

The Difference ◽

First Time

This chapter traces the developments of various terms denoting “others” in biblical literature. In much of the biblical corpus, Israel is still one goy among many, and the difference between it and its Others is neither binary nor stable. After a brief analysis of the dynamics of familial and ethnwic separations in Genesis and Exodus, this chapter concentrates on the priestly and Deuteronomistic modes of separating peoples, examines the novelty and limitedness of the Deuteronomistic legislation, where the nokhri (stranger) is systematically contrasted for the first time with the Israelite (referred to as “your brother”), and follows the various modes of separations and their rationales.

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