Born of Woman, Fashioned from Clay: Tracking the Homology of Earth and Womb from the Hebrew Bible to the Psalms of Thanksgiving.
This essay traces the features of a symbolic construct which seldom garners much attention among scholars of biblical and Second Temple texts, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely, the likening of earth and womb. It contends that understanding this symbolism brings clarity to several texts whose i...
| Publicado en: | Dead Sea Discoveries Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 135 - 179 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2021
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