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Eidevall, Göran
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Eidevall, G. (2022). Hebrew Laments in the Light of Mesopotamian Material. In: Larsson, Göran (Ed.), The Legacy, Life and Work of Geo Widengren and the Study of the History of Religions after World War II: (pp. 36-49). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hebrew Laments in the Light of Mesopotamian Material
2022 (English)In: The Legacy, Life and Work of Geo Widengren and the Study of the History of Religions after World War II / [ed] Larsson, Göran, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2022, p. 36-49Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Strictly speaking, Geo Widengren was not a biblical scholar. He never held an academic position within an exegetical discipline. Nevertheless, he made several important contributions to the field of biblical studies in general, and to Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible exegesis in particular. In this chapter, I discuss some key factors that enabled Widengren, being an expert within history of religion, to attain a rather prominent position within the exegetical guild, such as the academic milieu in Uppsala and the discovery of ancient Ugarit. Arguably, though, the most important factor was Widengren’s ability to combine these two disciplines in a fruitful way. In all the works discussed in this chapter, he consistently applied comparative methodology from the history of religion in order to throw new light on biblical texts. As regards the latter, he tended to prefer laments from the book of Psalms.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2022
Series
Numen, ISSN 0169-8834 ; 174
Keywords
Widengren, psalms, Ugarit, Engnell, Uppsala school, sacral kingship
National Category
History of Religions
Research subject
Old Testament Exegesis
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-462386 (URN)10.1163/9789004499386_003 (DOI)978-90-04-49936-2 (ISBN)978-90-04-49938-6 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-12-22 Created: 2021-12-22 Last updated: 2023-01-11Bibliographically approved
Eidevall, G. (2021). Bertil Albrektson in memoriam (1929-2021). Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, 86, 109-112
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Bertil Albrektson in memoriam (1929-2021)
2021 (Swedish)In: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, ISSN 1100-2298, Vol. 86, p. 109-112Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Old Testament Exegesis
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-461737 (URN)
Available from: 2021-12-16 Created: 2021-12-16 Last updated: 2022-11-16Bibliographically approved
Eidevall, G. (2021). Bibliska perspektiv på epidemier. Svenska Jerusalemsföreningens tidskrift, 120(3), 11-14
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Bibliska perspektiv på epidemier
2021 (Swedish)In: Svenska Jerusalemsföreningens tidskrift, ISSN 0346-2307, Vol. 120, no 3, p. 11-14Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Svenska Jerusalemsföreningen, 2021
National Category
Religious Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-456363 (URN)
Available from: 2021-10-19 Created: 2021-10-19 Last updated: 2022-11-16Bibliographically approved
Eidevall, G. (2021). Siarens mardröm och drömtydarens misslyckande: Utblick från apokalyptikens rotsystem. Aiolos, 70-71, 10-15
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Siarens mardröm och drömtydarens misslyckande: Utblick från apokalyptikens rotsystem
2021 (Swedish)In: Aiolos, ISSN 1400-7770, Vol. 70-71, p. 10-15Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Kulturföreningen Faethon, 2021
Keywords
apokalyptik, profetism, siare, drömtydare
National Category
History of Religions
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-456362 (URN)
Available from: 2021-10-19 Created: 2021-10-19 Last updated: 2023-07-10Bibliographically approved
Eidevall, G. (2021). Swords Into Plowshares: A Prophecy and Its Reception (Isaiah 2.2-5). In: Lindqvist, Pekka & Valve, Lotta (Ed.), Heralds of Good Tidings: Essays on the Bible, Prophecy, and the Hope of Israel in Honour of Antti Laato (pp. 319-330). Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Swords Into Plowshares: A Prophecy and Its Reception (Isaiah 2.2-5)
2021 (English)In: Heralds of Good Tidings: Essays on the Bible, Prophecy, and the Hope of Israel in Honour of Antti Laato / [ed] Lindqvist, Pekka & Valve, Lotta, Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2021, p. 319-330Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This article studies the reception history of a prophetic passage containing a vision of universal peace: Isa. 2.2-5 (par. Mic. 4.1-4). To begin with, it is demonstrated that one particular motif in this prophetic passage, the beating of ‘swords into plowshares’ (Isa. 2.4), has attained great symbolic significance. It has, above all, become closely associated with efforts to achieve global disarmament. Taking this contemporary trend as a point of departure, the study sets out to explore earlier stages in the history of interpretation. Based on a survey of selected examples from the patristic period, the Constantine era, and the Protestant reformation, it is demonstrated that Isa. 2.2-5 has been understood in different ways through the centuries. It is argued that major shifts in the interpretation can be related to changes in the social and political context of the interpreters. Whereas early Christian commentators (such as Justin Martyr and Eusebius) regarded this prophecy as already fulfilled in their political reality, albeit in strongly divergent ways, both Luther and Calvin advocated a spiritualizing interpretation. Against this background, the widespread use of the words from Isa. 2.4, ‘they shall beat their swords into plowshares’, as a source of inspiration for pacifist activism, stands out as a modern phenomenon.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2021
Series
Hebrew Bible Monographs ; 97
Keywords
peace, prophecy, Isaiah, history of interpretation, pacifism
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Old Testament Exegesis
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-456364 (URN)978-1-914490-01-9 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-10-19 Created: 2021-10-19 Last updated: 2021-11-02Bibliographically approved
Eidevall, G. (2020). Of Burning Ovens, Half-Baked Cakes, and Helpless Birds: Exploring a Cluster of Metaphors in Hosea 7. In: Verde, Danilo; Labahn, Antje (Ed.), Networks of Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible: (pp. 111-122). Leuven: Peeters Publishers
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Of Burning Ovens, Half-Baked Cakes, and Helpless Birds: Exploring a Cluster of Metaphors in Hosea 7
2020 (English)In: Networks of Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible / [ed] Verde, Danilo; Labahn, Antje, Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2020, p. 111-122Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This article explores a cluster of metaphors in the book of Hosea 7 (vv. 3-12). The methodological approach is informed by cognitive metaphor theory as well as by recent developments in the study of biblicalmetaphors. Hos 7:3-12 displays a bewildering array of images. Passions are likened to fire in an oven (vv. 4-7); the nation is depicted as poorly baked bread (v. 8), but also as a silly dove (v. 11); the punitive acts of YHWH are,finally, described in terms of catching birds with a net (v. 12). The analysis seeks to answer the following questions: To what extent can the various metaphors in Hos 7:3-12 be regarded as interrelated and interacting? How is each transition from one source domain to another best explained? How does this assemblage of different metaphors and similes contribute to the overall message of Hosea 7? It is argued that the recognition of two underlying, and overlapping, conceptual metaphors, namely passion is fire and the body is a container of emotions, provides important keys to the interpretation of 7:3-7. Finally, it is suggested that the entire cluster in Hos 7:3-12 is held together by thematic links to the domain of food production.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2020
Series
Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, ISSN 0770-1675 ; 309
Keywords
metaphor, hosea, network
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Old Testament Exegesis
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-411286 (URN)9789042942103 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-05-29 Created: 2020-05-29 Last updated: 2020-08-26Bibliographically approved
Eidevall, G. (2019). Hosea: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text [Review]. Expository times, 130(7), 323-323
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hosea: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text
2019 (English)In: Expository times, ISSN 0014-5246, E-ISSN 1745-5308, Vol. 130, no 7, p. 323-323Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2019
National Category
Religious Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-379418 (URN)10.1177/0014524619826508 (DOI)000459515500008 ()
Available from: 2019-03-19 Created: 2019-03-19 Last updated: 2019-03-19Bibliographically approved
Eidevall, G. (2019). Trees and Traumas: On the Use of Phytomorphic Metaphors in Prophetic Descriptions of Deportation and Exile. In: Jesper Høgenhaven, Frederik Poulsen, Cian Power (Ed.), Images of Exile in the Prophetic Literature: Copenhagen Conference Proceedings 7-10 May 2017 (pp. 217-231). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Trees and Traumas: On the Use of Phytomorphic Metaphors in Prophetic Descriptions of Deportation and Exile
2019 (English)In: Images of Exile in the Prophetic Literature: Copenhagen Conference Proceedings 7-10 May 2017 / [ed] Jesper Høgenhaven, Frederik Poulsen, Cian Power, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, p. 217-231Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Several prophetic passages in the Hebrew Bible employ plant metaphors in descriptions of deportations, life in exile, or return from exile. This article explores some metaphorical and rhetorical mechanisms at work, and seeks to answer the question: What factors contribute to making imagery related to the conceptual metaphor PEOPLE ARE PLANTS suitable as a means of expressing traumatic experiences of forced migration and exile?

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019
Series
Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe, ISSN 1611-4914, E-ISSN 2568-8367 ; 103
Keywords
prophets, deportation, exile, phytomorphic, plant metaphor, trauma, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Amos
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Old Testament Exegesis
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385776 (URN)10.1628/978-3-16-156699-8 (DOI)978-3-16-155749-1 (ISBN)
Available from: 2019-06-17 Created: 2019-06-17 Last updated: 2020-04-07Bibliographically approved
Eidevall, G. (2018). Amos i kommentarens form. In: James Starr och Birger Olsson (Ed.), Ordet är dig mycket nära: Tolkningar av Gamla testamentet (pp. 147-157). Skellefteå: Artos & Norma bokförlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Amos i kommentarens form
2018 (Swedish)In: Ordet är dig mycket nära: Tolkningar av Gamla testamentet / [ed] James Starr och Birger Olsson, Skellefteå: Artos & Norma bokförlag, 2018, p. 147-157Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Skellefteå: Artos & Norma bokförlag, 2018
Keywords
Amos, profetbok, bibelkommentar, Kyrillos av Alexandria, Theodoros av Mopsuestia
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Old Testament Exegesis
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-361475 (URN)978-91-7777-023-7 (ISBN)
Available from: 2018-09-24 Created: 2018-09-24 Last updated: 2018-12-13Bibliographically approved
Eidevall, G. (2018). Guds vänner och fiender: Ideologi och identitetskonstruktion i Psaltaren och Jesajaboken. In: Rosmari Lillas-Schuil; Gunnar Samuelsson; Georg Walser; Tobias Ålöw (Ed.), "Må de nu förklara ...": Om bibeltexter, religion, litteratur. Festskrift för Staffan Olofsson. (pp. 51-66). Göteborg: LIR.skrifter
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Guds vänner och fiender: Ideologi och identitetskonstruktion i Psaltaren och Jesajaboken
2018 (Swedish)In: "Må de nu förklara ...": Om bibeltexter, religion, litteratur. Festskrift för Staffan Olofsson. / [ed] Rosmari Lillas-Schuil; Gunnar Samuelsson; Georg Walser; Tobias Ålöw, Göteborg: LIR.skrifter, 2018, p. 51-66Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: LIR.skrifter, 2018
Keywords
fiendebilder, Psaltaren, Jesaja, identitetskonstruktion
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Old Testament Exegesis
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-364855 (URN)978-91-88348-76-0 (ISBN)
Available from: 2018-11-05 Created: 2018-11-05 Last updated: 2019-04-04Bibliographically approved
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