Literary Forms/Techniques & Methods of Study

Literary Forms/Techniques Lev 26:13)] Joshua Berman, "'The Poles of Your Yoke' (Lev 26:13): Mudbrick Bearing and the Career of a Biblical Metaphor," JNSL 48 (2, 2022) 1–16. The yoke as a metaphor for political oppression is well attested in writings from the ANE and the HB. The instances where the metaphor is expressed via the phrase "the poles of the yoke" as in Lev 26:13; Ezek 34:27; or simply "the poles," are puzzling, however, given that the yoke of a draft animal consists of a single pole. My study interprets the occurrence of the above phrase in Lev 26:13 in light of depictions of mudbrick transport in the funerary chapel of the 18th Dynasty vizier Rekhmire. The study also explores Ezekiel's references to a yoke consisting of multiple poles and considers the dynamics that govern how later writers reuse metaphors and adapt them within a new context. Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B. 941. An Egyptian Parallel for the Hebrew Motif of the Moaning Dove Stefan Bojowald, "Eine ägyptische Parallele für das hebräische Motiv der...