ISBN:
9783647500430
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (375 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Lublin Theological Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Abstract:
Cover -- Titel -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Bibliographical Abbreviations -- Editorial remarks -- Introduction -- 1 The Meaning of Blood(shed) in Akkadian Writings and in the Hebrew Bible -- 1.1 Blood(shed) in Akkadian Writings: The Semantics of damu(m) -- 1.1.1 General Overview -- Concrete referents of damu(m) -- Abstract referents of damu(m) -- 1.1.2 Blood(shed) in the Context of the Assyrian Wars -- "Bloody" metaphors as topoi -- Bloodshed and Assyrian propaganda -- 1.1.3 Blood(shed) in the Context of Civil Violence -- Bloodshed and bloodguilt: the expression ina dami(m) ballu -- Bloodshed as a sin against the gods -- Bloodshed as a crime against the king and society -- The expressions tābik damī/ē and amir damī/ē -- The idiom bēl damī/ē -- Bloodshed in the context of political and economic affairs -- Remedying bloodshed: blood money and other measures -- 1.2 Blood(shed) in the Hebrew Bible: The Semantics of ָם -- 1.2.1 General Overview -- Concrete referents of ָם -- Abstract referents of ָם -- ָם versus damu(m) -- 1.2.2 Cultic-Ritual Conceptualization of Blood in the Hebrew Bible -- The biblical concept of דָּם"blood" identified with נֶפֶשׁ "life" -- The prohibition on eating blood -- The cultic significance of blood -- Excursus: "Blood-consciousness" and the primitive comprehension of blood -- Bloodguilt and blood defilement: the cult versus ethics -- Excursus: The distinctiveness of the biblical conceptualization of blood against the background of other cultural milieus of the ancient Near East -- 1.2.3 Blood(shed) in the Sphere of Biblical Ethics -- The semantics of שׁפך דָּם -- Bloodshed in relation to other crimes -- The guilt of shedding blood -- Blood vengeance -- Blood(shed) as pollutant: the exile and the land's destruction.
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