LEADER 06497oam 22008414a 450 001 9910155112503321 005 20230613193002.0 010 $a9781575064598 010 $a1575064596 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575064598 035 $a(CKB)3710000000973097 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4772168 035 $a(DLC) 2016023802 035 $a(DE-B1597)584515 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575064598 035 $a(OCoLC)950203065 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_80866 035 $a(Perlego)2058559 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000973097 100 $a20180409h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $amul 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFishers of Fish and Fishers of Men$eFishing Imagery in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East /$fTyler R. Yoder 210 1$aWinona Lake, Indiana :$cEisenbrauns,$d2016. 210 4$d©2016. 215 $a1 online resource (243 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 0 $aExplorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations ;$v4 311 08$a9781575064581 311 08$a1575064588 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter --$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. En?ma Eli? --$t4.4. Synthesis --$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 330 $aThe metaphor is a hallmark of Classical Hebrew poetry. Some metaphors, such as ?Yhwh is king? or ?Yhwh is warrior,? play a foundational role. The same does not hold for metaphors from the fishing industry. Because they had access to only two major freshwater sources, archaeological research demonstrates that this industry did not play a major socioeconomic role in ancient Israel. Fishing has nevertheless made a substantial contribution to prophetic and wisdom literature. All metaphors manifest reality, but given the physical circumstances of a largely agrarian, nonmarine society, what does the sustained presentation of fishing metaphors in the Hebrew Bible communicate?Examining the use of fishing images in the Hebrew Bible is a formidable task that demands an open mind and a capacity to mine the gamut of contemporaneous evidence. In Fishers of Fish and Fishers of Men, Tyler Yoder presents the first literary study devoted to the fishing images used in the Hebrew Scriptures as well as in the Mesopotamian textual records. This calls for a penetrating look into cultural contact with Israel?s neighbors to the east (Mesopotamia) and southwest (Egypt). Though nearly all fishing metaphors in the Hebrew Bible carry overt royal or divine connotations that mirror uses well-attested in Mesopotamian literature, this comparative analysis remains a largely untapped area of research. In this study of the diverse literary qualities of fishing images, Yoder offers a holistic understanding of how one integral component of ancient Near Eastern society affected the whole, bringing together the assemblage of disparate materials related to this field of study to enable scholars to integrate these data into related research and move the conversation forward. 410 0$aExplorations in ancient Near Eastern civilizations ;$v4. 606 $aPêcheurs$xAspect religieux$3(FrPBN)11941602$3(FrPBN)11965510$2ram 606 $aPêches$xAspect religieux$3(FrPBN)11933047$3(FrPBN)11965510$2ram 606 $aSymbolism in the Bible$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01140791 606 $aMiddle Eastern literature$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01020340 606 $aMetaphor in the Bible$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01018301 606 $aImagery (Psychology) in literature$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00967548 606 $aFishing$xReligious aspects$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00926681 606 $aFishing in the Bible$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00926743 606 $aMiddle Eastern literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFishing$xReligious aspects 606 $aFishing in the Bible 606 $aImagery (Psychology) in literature 606 $aSymbolism in the Bible 606 $aMetaphor in the Bible 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 615 7$aPêcheurs$xAspect religieux. 615 7$aPêches$xAspect religieux. 615 7$aSymbolism in the Bible. 615 7$aMiddle Eastern literature. 615 7$aMetaphor in the Bible. 615 7$aImagery (Psychology) in literature. 615 7$aFishing$xReligious aspects. 615 7$aFishing in the Bible. 615 0$aMiddle Eastern literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFishing$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aFishing in the Bible. 615 0$aImagery (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aSymbolism in the Bible. 615 0$aMetaphor in the Bible. 676 $a220.8/6392 700 $aYoder$b Tyler R$4aut$01070855 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155112503321 996 $aFishers of Fish and Fishers of Men$92565247 997 $aUNINA