Vögel als Entsorger negativer Kräfte in biblischen, ägyptischen und altorientalischen Texten
This short paper compares Hebrew and Egyptian text passages on the role of birds as disposers of negative forces. Lev 14,49-53 describes the cleansing of a house from leprosy by letting fly a bird. In the Egyptian case, P. Ramesseum 3 B 33, a swallow symbolically takes away a childhood sickness. Com...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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| Published: |
Peeters
[2020]
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| In: |
Biblica
Year: 2020, Volume: 101, Issue: 2, Pages: 272-276 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Levitikus 14,49-53
/ Ancient Orient
/ Ritual
/ Birds
/ Cleaning
B Egyptian language / Literature / Papyrus / Magic (Motif) |
| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion BC Ancient Orient; religion HB Old Testament |
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| Summary: | This short paper compares Hebrew and Egyptian text passages on the role of birds as disposers of negative forces. Lev 14,49-53 describes the cleansing of a house from leprosy by letting fly a bird. In the Egyptian case, P. Ramesseum 3 B 33, a swallow symbolically takes away a childhood sickness. Comparable motifs are also found in Hittite and Babylonian texts. |
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| ISSN: | 2385-2062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/BIB.101.2.3288266 |