Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Violence in the Hebrew Bible; Between Text and Reception
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2020) 23-41
Keywords:
Bible Language, style
;
Violence in the Bible
;
Hebrew language, Biblical Terms and phrases
Abstract:
This chapter aims to identify and categorise terms for violence in Hebrew, as a foundation for further study of the use of violence in the Hebrew Bible. It understands violence as the deliberate use of physical force against another, and especially against the body of another. It surveys terms for actions and puts them in several categories, such as to 1) destroy, oppress, show violence; 2) kill, slaughter; 3) strike; 4) break, break bones, break the neck; 5) crush; 6) pierce, thrust through, wound; 7) cut, cut off, cut into pieces; and 8) seize, bind. This categorisation does not include the words war, warrior, fight, burn, capture, or circumcise, nor does it include other terms for hostility that do not necessarily include violence, such as reject, despise, mock, curse, hate, abhor, and loathe. The preliminary list of terms for violence contains 235 items, which occur in the Hebrew Bible a total of 5,400 times (constituting 1.8% of the Hebrew Bible). The chapter analyses how many of these terms and occurrences relate to violence against persons and draws some preliminary conclusions based on this analysis.
DOI:
10.1163/9789004434684_004
URL:
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