Drought, Famine, Plague and Pestilence
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Drought, Famine, Plague and Pestilence

Ancient Israel's Understandings of and Responses to Natural Catastrophes

  1. 210 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Drought, Famine, Plague and Pestilence

Ancient Israel's Understandings of and Responses to Natural Catastrophes

About this book

This interdisciplinary study integrates textual analysis of the Hebrew Bible and comparable ancient Near Eastern material with social theory and archaeology in order to articulate the ancient Israelites' taken-for-granted understandings of natural disasters, their intellectual and theological challenges to those understandings, and their intellectual and theological reconstructions thereof.

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Table of contents

  1. DEDICATION
  2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. ABBREVIATIONS
  5. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
  6. CHAPTER 2: NATURAL CATASTROPHES IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN AND MEDITERRANEAN WORLDS
  7. CHAPTER 3: SOCIAL THEORY: DOXA, CRISIS AND COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
  8. CHAPTER 4: UNDERSTANDINGS OF AND RESPONSES TO NATURAL CATASTROPHES AMONG PEOPLES OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND ANCIENT ISRAEL
  9. CHAPTER 5: PRACTICAL AND RITUALISTIC RESPONSES TO NATURAL CATASTROPHES AMONG PEOPLES OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, INCLUDING ANCIENT ISRAEL
  10. CHAPTER 6: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
  11. APPENDIX A: THE LATE ISRAELITE/JUDEAN MONARCHY: AN ERA OF CUMULATIVE TRAUMA
  12. APPENDIX B: DURKHEIMIAN SOCIAL THEORY IN OLD TESTAMENT STUDY AND RECENT SOCIOLOGY
  13. APPENDIX C: CURSES FROM ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN TEXTS
  14. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  15. INDEX