The Lord of the East Wind

Download or read book The Lord of the East Wind written by Aloysius Fitzgerald FSC and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because we biblical scholars tend to work primarily on texts in libraries, offices, studies, and so on, in North America, Europe, and elsewhere, we frequently do not think to ask questions concerning such mundane subjects as the weather in ancient Israel and Judah. Yet the Hebrew Bible makes frequent references to weather, particularly in relation to the portrayals of theophany that come to mind when we try to understand the Bible's descriptions of the manifestations of divine presence in the world. Indeed, Fitzgerald, in this very interesting monograph, points out how frequently we make the error of ignoring the weather in our reading of biblical texts.