Drought, Famine, Plague and Pestilence: Ancient Israel’s Understandings of and Responses to Natural Catastrophes

Warren C. Robertson

Published by Gorgias Press 2014

Drought, Famine, Plague and Pestilence

Ancient Israel’s Understandings of and Responses to Natural Catastrophes

Warren C. Robertson

Volume 45 in the series Gorgias Biblical Studies

https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463236199

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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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
DEDICATION Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 2: NATURAL CATASTROPHES IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN AND MEDITERRANEAN WORLDS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
CHAPTER 3: SOCIAL THEORY: DOXA, CRISIS AND COGNITIVE DISSONANCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
CHAPTER 4: UNDERSTANDINGS OF AND RESPONSES TO NATURAL CATASTROPHES AMONG PEOPLES OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND ANCIENT ISRAEL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
CHAPTER 5: PRACTICAL AND RITUALISTIC RESPONSES TO NATURAL CATASTROPHES AMONG PEOPLES OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, INCLUDING ANCIENT ISRAEL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
CHAPTER 6: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
APPENDIX A: THE LATE ISRAELITE/JUDEAN MONARCHY: AN ERA OF CUMULATIVE TRAUMA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
APPENDIX B: DURKHEIMIAN SOCIAL THEORY IN OLD TESTAMENT STUDY AND RECENT SOCIOLOGY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
APPENDIX C: CURSES FROM ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN TEXTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193

Language: English
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Pages
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Published: June 11, 2014
ISBN: 9781463236199