Quiet Voices: Silence in the Hebrew Bible
Nov 2024 · Fortress Press
Ebook
154
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About this ebook
Quiet Voices explores the language, context, and purpose of silence in the Hebrew Bible. It traces silence across the Bible's many genres (narrative, law, prophecy, psalmody, and wisdom) by using theoretical frames drawn from various academic disciplines (communication studies, political science, literary criticism, and sociological studies). The book examines how silence as a literary technique, particularly that of the narrator, connects theologically to themes of obedience, grief, hope, personal relationships, trauma, politics, and wisdom. The volume concludes with a theological reflection on the silence of God in the face of human suffering.
About the author
Victor H. Matthews is professor emeritus of religious studies and former dean at Missouri State University. He is a specialist in Hebrew Bible and the social world of the ancient Near East and has published nineteen books and more than a hundred scholarly articles.
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