: Warren C. Robertson
: Drought, Famine, Plague and Pestilence Ancient Israel's Understandings of and Responses to Natural Catastrophes
: Gorgias Press
: 9781463236199
: Gorgias Biblical Studies
: 1
: CHF 62.10
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: Christentum
: English
: 210
: Wasserzeichen
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: PDF
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.