še'ôl - > Yerûšālayim < - šāmayim: spatial orientation in the Egyptian Hallel (Psalms 113-118)
This study utilises insights from narratology, critical spatiality and the redaction and composition of the Psalter to argue that the collection of poems known as the "Egyptian" Hallel (Psalms 113-118) is not a haphazard anthology of individual poems, but a carefully structured composition...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2006
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2006, Volume: N.S.19, Issue: 2, Pages: 739-760 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Psalmen 113-118
/ Temple (Jerusalem)
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Space
B Heaven (motif) B Underworld B Narrative theory B Jerusalem B Bible. Psalmen 113-118 |
| Summary: | This study utilises insights from narratology, critical spatiality and the redaction and composition of the Psalter to argue that the collection of poems known as the "Egyptian" Hallel (Psalms 113-118) is not a haphazard anthology of individual poems, but a carefully structured composition that tells a "story". The hypothesis is that the editors of the Psalter used, amongst others, notions of spatiality as an ordering principle in telling the story. Psalms 113-118 tell a spatial story that starts amongst the nations and in Sheol, but moves towards a final destination in Jerusalem and the temple. |
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| ISSN: | 1010-9919 |
| Contains: | In: Old Testament essays
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