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- ↑ Birgit Platzgummer Sprachliche Bilder in der Bibel: Metaphern und Vergleiche Page 11 - 2005 "Doch eine solche Personifikation hat noch keine allegorische Bedeutung. Eine allegorische Personifikation liegt erst dann vor, wenn die Personifikation rezeptionsästhetisch noch eine zweite ... "
- ↑ Susanne Gorges-Braunwarth Frauenbilder - Weisheitsbilder - Gottesbilder in Spr 1-9 2002- Page 93 "Definitionen und Bestimmungen der Personifikation divergieren aufgrund ihrer jeweiligen Herkunft aus der Literaturwissenschaft,"
- ↑ Johann Gottfried Herder: Aspekte seines Lebenswerks - Page 44 Martin Keßler, Volker Leppin - 2005 "Herder „verteidigt weder die Bibel mit den Mitteln klassischer Rhetorik und Poesie, noch rechtfertigt er die Poesie unter ... Wenn er etwa im Buch Hiob die gelungenen Personifikationen bewundert, die alles als handelnd darstellen können und ..."
- ↑ K. A. Mathews The New American Commentary: Genesis 1 1126 - Page 270 - 1996 "The Lord forewarned Cain that right action would be rewarded but a wrong course meant giving sin an opportunity to destroy him (v. 7a). ... 271 "Sin" is likened to an animal "crouching" or "lurking" (NRSV) at the "door," meaning the animal's resting place, ready to stir if incited. "Crouch" ... narrative is personifying sin as a demonic spirit ready to pounce on Cain once he opens the "door" of opportunity."
- ↑ Reinhard Achenbach, Martin Arneth, Eckart Otto Tora in der hebräischen Bibel: Studien zur Redaktionsgeschichte Page 205 "Das gilt auch für das Verhältnis zwischen der Gemeinschaft auf dem Zion und dem Gesalbten in Jes 60 und 61. Die prophetische Aufforderung an Zion in der Personifikation Jerusalems, als Freudenbotin nach Jes 40,9"
- ↑ Ulrike Sals Die Biographie der "Hure Babylon": Studien Zur Intertextualität ... - Page 29 - 2004 "Zugleich ist diese Personifikation Babylons insgesamt fur seine/ihre Geschichte innerhalb wie außerhalb der Bibel von immenser Bedeutung, weil dieses multiple Bild nicht nur verschiedene Bereiche in eine Synthese führt, sondern auch als ..."
- ↑ Hosea 2: metaphor and rhetoric in historical perspective - Page 86 Brad E. Kelle - 2005 p86 "2For a helpful list of recent works devoted to the personification of cities as females, see P. Day, "The Personification of ... Tyre (Isa 23:15) and her daughters (Ezek 26:6, 8), Bethlehem Ephrathah (Mic 5:2), and Sodom (Ezek 16:46), ..."
- ↑ Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition: Jewish and Christian ... - Page 54 John Byron - 2011 "We also saw that, unlike the Hebrew, the LXX does not portray sin as personified and waiting to conquer Cain. Rather, sin became ... of the verse as well. Hence, instead of reading ץבר as sin "lurking" or "crouching" at the door waiting for Cain ..."
- ↑ The Book of Jubilees Among the Apocalypses - Page 470 Todd Russell Hanneken - 2008 "The story of Cain is retold without the personification of sin, לחתפּ וֹבּ־לשׁמתּ התּאו וֹתקוּשׁתּ ךָילאו ץבר תאטּח "sin crouches at the door craving to get you, but you can control it" (Genesis 4:7). The bigger shift in the Cain story, for our purposes,"
- ↑ Philonis Alexandrini Legatio ad Gaium - Page 203 Philo (of Alexandria.) - 1970 "On Philo's predilection for personification see J. Drummond, Philo Judaeus or the Jewish Alexandrian Philosophy ..."
- ↑ Karl-Heinz Wollscheid Personifikationen des Bösen: Hölle, Teufel und Dämonen in der ... 2007 "
- ↑ Mercer Dictionary of the Bible - Page 209 Watson E. Mills, Roger Aubrey Bullard - 1990 "Like Paul, the writer of John's Gospel refers to Satan as the personification of evil (John 13:2, 27), but the use of "the devil" or ."