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Job 3:8-Cosmological Snake-Charming and Leviathanic Panic in a Near Eastern Setting

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

The author examines the intriguing mention of “those who curse Yamm” and “rouse Leviathan” in Job 3:8, and tries to relate these expressions to Near Eastern religious history. The old assumption that two texts inscribed on Aramaic incantation bowls indicate the full background of these expressions is challenged, and further evidence is sought in texts such as the Enuma Elish, the Gnosticizing “Hymn of the Pearl” and in a passage from the Hittite myth of Illuyanka. A pattern emerges in which the users of the Aramaic incantations are not themselves “those who curse Yamm” but that they, too, refer back to a much larger and more intricate tradition concerning spells powerful enough to bind the chaotic powers of the sea.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

265-271

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Zeitschrift für Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

Volym

122

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

De Gruyter

Ämne

  • Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Nyckelord

  • Job 3:8
  • Leviathan
  • Hymn of the Pearl
  • Illuyanka
  • Yamm
  • curse-magic

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0044-2526