Loneliness in the Biblical World
Loneliness in the Biblical World
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This volume is a sequel to Loneliness in the Hebrew Bible (2025) which considered loneliness and issues related to it - including social exclusion, ostracism, and isolation - as well as practices combating these experiences in a range of texts within the Hebrew Bible and its broader cultural milieu. Expanding the focus of that first volume, this collection investigates ways in which loneliness was conceptualized in the wider ancient Near East (including the second-and first millennium BCE Mesopotamia and ancient Israel) and the Graeco-Roman world.
Using a diverse array of perspectives and hermeneutics, such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, gender studies, food and famine research, work on socio-political activism and leadership, extinction studies, epic/hero narrative criticism, refugee and migration studies, the contributors showcase a high-quality interdisciplinary exchange. This collection discusses both negative and positive aspects of life in solitude; finally, and significantly, the volume explores points of contact and distance between ancient texts and contemporary questions and reflects on their enduring significance for life in today's social contexts.
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Part One: Loneliness in the Biblical World: The Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Chapter One: Lonely in Mesopotamia: Loneliness and Social Connection in Old Babylonian Sources - Nicole Lundeen, University of Vienna, Austria
Chapter Two. Lilith the Endling: Reading Isaiah 34:11-17 with Extinction Studies - Anne Létourneau, Université de Montréal, Canada
Chapter Three: “Like Wild Donkeys in the Desert” (Job 24:5): Spatiality, Physicality, and Materiality of Social Exclusion in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible - Ekaterina E. Kozlova, King's College London, UK
Part Two: Loneliness in the Biblical World: The Hebrew Bible
Chapter Four: Moses the Humble: Leadership and Loneliness in Numbers 11–14 - Jackie Wyse-Rhodes, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, USA
Chapter Five: Loneliness as Protest and Loneliness as Punishment: Comparing Ancient Israelite Women with Contemporary Korean and American Women - Mitchel Modine, Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary, Philippines
Chapter Six: Taking Comfort in Intertextuality: Deutero-Isaiah's Answer to the Loneliness of Lamentations - Elizabeth Hare, Cranmer Hall, St John's College, Durham University, UK
Chapter Seven: Sabbath as Antidote to Exclusion and Foundation of Belonging in Third Isaiah - Travis West, Western Theological Seminary, USA
Chapter Eight: Jonah's Experiential and Existential Loneliness, Rootlessness, and Homelessness - Anat Shapiro, Aarhus University, Denmark
Chapter Nine: Nehemiah – a Lonely Hero? - Maira Rehr, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Chapter Ten: Loneliness as a Preview and Review of History in the Narrative Imagination of Daniel 10 - Katherine Southwood, University of Oxford, UK
Part III: Loneliness in the Later Biblical World: The New Testament and Beyond
Chapter Eleven: The Power of Touch in Situations of Loneliness in the Gospels - Susanne Luther, Universität Göttingen, Germany
Chapter Twelve: Lukan Syncrisis and Paul's Solitary Overland Walk from Troas to Assos in Acts 20:13 - Adam Kubis, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Chapter Thirteen: Time Alone: Christians in Prayer and Stoics in Exile - Kenneth Cukrowski, Abilene Christian University, USA
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Product details
| Published | 04 Mar 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 336 |
| ISBN | 9780567728944 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Series | The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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