Mitteilungen: The use of water imagery in descriptions of Sheol

Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 240-244

  Rudman, Dominic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60949591796     PISSN: 00442526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/zatw.113.2.240     Document Type: Review

References (18)

1. The former view is adopted by T. J. Lewis, Dead, Abode of the, in: AncB Dictionary II, 103,
2. the latter by R. Rosenberg, The Concept of Biblical Sheol within the Context of A.N.E. Beliefs, Ph. D. diss., Harvard University, 1980.
3. Cf. e.g., J. A. Bewer, Jonah, ICC, 1912, 46.
4. e'ōl, in: R. L. Harris, G. L. Archer and B. K. Waltke (eds.), Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, 1980, 892.
5. Cf. The Meaning of the Word Sheol as shown by Parallels in Poetic Texts, JETS 4 (1961) 129-135.
6. J. Pedersen, Israel: Its Life and Culture, 1926, 461f.
7. e'ôl Was Translated »Grave«, in: K. L. Barker (ed.), The NIV: The Making of a Contemporary Translation, 1986, 59).
8. A claimed reference to Sheol in the texts from Ebla remains uncertain. Cf. M. Dahood, Love and Death at Ebla and their Biblical Reflections, in J. H. Marks / R. M. Good (eds.), Love and Death in the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of Marvin H. Pope, 1987, 97.
9. N. Tromp, Primitive Conceptions of Death and the Netherworld in the OT, BibOr 21, 1969.
10. Rosenberg, The Concept of Biblical Sheol, 178-252.
11. Rosenberg's argument is based on earlier work by P. K. McCarter (The River Ordeal in Israelite Literature, HThR 66 [1973], 403-412)
12. and T. Frymer-Kensky (The Judicial Ordeal in the Ancient Near East [Ph. D. diss., Yale University, 1977]).
13. The former had earlier derived the name from the root, seeing it as »the place of interrogation« (407f.), following an earlier suggestion by W. F. A. Albright (The Etymology of Sheol, AJSL 34 [1918], 209f.).
14. Rosenberg derives similarly, positing the development in meaning »inquire 〉call to account〈 punish« (8-12). A. Heidel had earlier argued that the OT Sheol was the habitation of the ungodly only (The Gilgamesh Epic and OT Parallels, 1949, 184-191).
15. E. Podechard, L'Ecclésiaste, 1912, 417;
16. Crenshaw, Ecclesiastes, OTL, 1987, 104, 163.
17. Cf. H. D. Galter, HUBUR, in: DDD, 430f.
18. Cf. The Babylonian Theodicy, translated in: W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Wisdom Literature, 1960, 70,16f: »Our fathers in fact give up and go the way of death; it is an old saying that they cross the river Hubur«.