The Power of Images: The Poetics of Violence in Lamentations 2 and Ancient Near Eastern Art

by J. Walker

The publication of Keel's Symbolism of the Biblical World (German 1972, English 1978) demonstrated the val-ue of ancient Near Eastern iconography for interpreting biblical texts. In the intervening decades since (and of) Keel's work, iconographic exegesis of the Hebrew Bible has witnessed significant methodological and theoretical developments, many of which can be broadly characterized by an increasing concern with issues of histor(icit)y and contiguity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042949856
• ISBN13: 9789042949850
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.