By Laurel Lanner
ISBN-10: 0567026027
ISBN-13: 9780567026026
It isn't remarkable that non-academic bible readers principally forget about Nahum. Comprising just a couple of pages, it really is simply missed in the middle of the twelve Minor Prophets. while a reader does cease in passing, the ebook seems to be short, brutish, and uncomfortably violent. having a look extra heavily, even though, readers could become aware of echoes of different a lot better prophets, similar to Isaiah and Ezekiel, even perhaps of the Psalms, and finish that the e-book is a slightly second-rate pastiche of alternative writings, even supposing a few relatively superb poetry is woven into it. Who Will Lament Her? takes a clean examine Nahum. It explores extra the presence of the female within the ebook of Nahum, the level to which it really is found in the textual content, how the constitution of the textual content makes the female either current and absent, and the prospective the explanation why this can be so. Lanner takes methodological ways. the 1st units out to teach that it's attainable female deity is found in the textual content of Nahum. the second one method engages 3 theories of the literary really good with the textual content, taking into account the findings of the ancient and exegetical paintings. utilizing those techniques hand in hand leads to a clean examining of Nahum
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McFarland, 2000), 242. 2. The Religious and Political Extra-text ofNahum Studies 39 is a wife, but having no economic or child raising function, she falls to the margins of society. She is seen as mobile and not tied to a dwelling place. 10 She constantly seeks out new lovers and situations to dominate. Frymer-Kensky writes that as a "free" woman Inanna seems to live the life of a young man going to war and having lovers. The goddess is "at the boundary of differences between men and women"11 and she can turn men into women and vice versa, an ability reflected in cross-dressing as part of her cultic festivals.
Issues 35 Berlin's observation that Zephaniah's interest seems to be the fall of cities and de-urbanization, alerts us to similar possibilities for Nahum. Raabe's proposal, that the OAN were warnings to Israelite listeners to steer away from desiring and imitating the gods and customs of other nations, is also significant and this possibility with regard to Nahum will be discussed below. While in this examination of Nahum, attention will be given to elements derived from divine warrior imagery and ancient Near Eastern mythology, and to connections with lamentation and treaty forms, I would be hesitant to assign to any one of these sources a dominant role in the creation of Nahum.
44. 31. Parpola, Assyrian Prophecies, xxi. 32. In late Assyrian times Ishtar of Nineveh was identified with Mulissu the spouse of Ashur. 4. See also E. , Assyria 1995, 339-58 (347). 33. Parpola, Assyrian Prophecies, xxvi. 34. P. , "Aspects of the Religion of the Israelite Monarchy: Biblical and Epigraphic Data," in Ancient Israelite Religion (ed. Patrick D. Miller, Paul D. Hanson and S. Dean McBride; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987), 137-55 (148 [original emphasis]). 35. Parpola, Assyrian Prophecies, xxix.
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