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100 1 _aYoder, Tyler R.
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245 1 0 _aFishers of Fish and Fishers of Men :
_bFishing Imagery in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East /
_cTyler R. Yoder.
264 1 _aUniversity Park, PA :
_bPenn State University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource (240 p.)
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490 0 _aExplorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations ;
_v4
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAbbreviations --
_tChapter 1. Surveying the Water: Introductory Matters --
_t1.1. Why Fishing Imagery? --
_t1.2. What Fishing Imagery? --
_t1.3. Previous Studies and the Scope of This Study --
_t1.4. Methodology --
_t1.5. The World of the Fisher --
_t1.6. Fishing Terminology in the Hebrew Bible --
_tChapter 2. Heavenly Fishing: Divine Fishers in the Ancient Near East --
_t2.1. Introduction --
_t2.2. Divine Fishers in the Ancient Near East --
_t2.3. Divine Fishers in the Hebrew Bible (Jeremiah 16:16-18) --
_t2.4. Synthesis --
_tChapter 3. Fishers of Men: Divine Discipline as Fishing Image --
_t3.1. Introduction --
_t3.2. Textual Analysis (Amos 4:1-3; Habakkuk 1:14-17; Ezekiel 12:13-14; 17:16-21; 19:1-9) --
_t3.3. Synthesis --
_tChapter 4. Monster Mash: "Big-Game" Fishing Imagery --
_t4.1. Introduction --
_t4.2. Hebrew Bible (Job 40:25-32; Ezekiel 29:1-6a; 32:1-10) --
_t4.3. Enūma Eliš --
_t4.4. Synthesis --
_tChapter 5. Deadliest Catch: Fishing Imagery and Tragedy --
_t5.1. Introduction --
_t5.2. Mesopotamian Literature --
_t5.3. Hebrew Bible (Qohelet 9:11-12) --
_t5.4. Synthesis --
_tChapter 6. "It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times": Fishing Imagery, Polarity, and Prophetic Literature --
_t6.1. Introduction --
_t6.2. It Was the Worst of Times (Isaiah 19:5-10; Ezekiel 26:1-14) --
_t6.3. It Was the Best of Times Where God Dwells (Ezekiel 47:1-12) --
_t6.4. Shattering Stereotypes and Transforming Tropes --
_tChapter 7. Reeling It In: Concluding Reflections --
_tBibliography --
_tIndexes --
_tIndex of Authors --
_tIndex of Scripture --
_tIndex of Subjects and Other Ancient Sources
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520 _aThe metaphor is a hallmark of Classical Hebrew poetry. Some metaphors, such as "Yhwh is king" or "Yhwh is warrior," play a foundational role. The same does not hold for metaphors from the fishing industry. Because they had access to only two major freshwater sources, archaeological research demonstrates that this industry did not play a major socioeconomic role in ancient Israel. Fishing has nevertheless made a substantial contribution to prophetic and wisdom literature. All metaphors manifest reality, but given the physical circumstances of a largely agrarian, nonmarine society, what does the sustained presentation of fishing metaphors in the Hebrew Bible communicate?Examining the use of fishing images in the Hebrew Bible is a formidable task that demands an open mind and a capacity to mine the gamut of contemporaneous evidence. In Fishers of Fish and Fishers of Men, Tyler Yoder presents the first literary study devoted to the fishing images used in the Hebrew Scriptures as well as in the Mesopotamian textual records. This calls for a penetrating look into cultural contact with Israel's neighbors to the east (Mesopotamia) and southwest (Egypt). Though nearly all fishing metaphors in the Hebrew Bible carry overt royal or divine connotations that mirror uses well-attested in Mesopotamian literature, this comparative analysis remains a largely untapped area of research. In this study of the diverse literary qualities of fishing images, Yoder offers a holistic understanding of how one integral component of ancient Near Eastern society affected the whole, bringing together the assemblage of disparate materials related to this field of study to enable scholars to integrate these data into related research and move the conversation forward.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aFishing in the Bible.
650 0 _aFishing
_xReligious aspects.
650 0 _aImagery (Psychology) in literature.
650 0 _aMetaphor in the Bible.
650 0 _aMiddle Eastern literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aSymbolism in the Bible
650 0 _aSymbolism in the Bible.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Ancient / General.
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