- Lehrstuhl für Altes Testament
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Université de Fribourg
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Sigrid Eder
Université de Fribourg, Département d'Etudes Bibliques, Faculty Member
- Book of Psalms, Reception History, The Book of Psalms, Narratology, Metaphor, Literary Methods of Analysis In Biblical Interpretation, and 9 moreGender Studies, Feminist Exegesis, Feminist Theory, Violence in the Bible, Lyrics, Didactics of the Bible, Book of Judges, Biblical Hermeneutics, and Biblical Emotionedit
- Ord. Prof. Dr. MMMag. Sigrid Eder is chair of Exegesis of the Old Testament at the Faculty of Theology, University of... moreOrd. Prof. Dr. MMMag. Sigrid Eder is chair of Exegesis of the Old Testament at the Faculty of Theology, University of Fribourg/Switzerland. She specializes in Psalms, Narratology, Metaphor-Analysis, Biblical Anthropology (emotions, power, violence, body-images) and Gender studies.edit
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How is it possible that readers plunge into literary texts and experience them at first hand? Based upon this question, the “habilitation” explores the immediacy of the psalms. Immediacy is based on the fact that readers can identify with... more
How is it possible that readers plunge into literary texts and experience them at first hand?
Based upon this question, the “habilitation” explores the immediacy of the psalms. Immediacy is based on the fact that readers can identify with the situations, experiences, emotions, characters and movements expressed in the texts. Therefore, the project aimed to find answer to the following research question: Which aspects of identification can be found in the psalms of the Hebrew Bible? So the aim of this project was it to analyse strategies of the texts, which enable readers to identify with the text-world described in the psalms.
Based upon this question, the “habilitation” explores the immediacy of the psalms. Immediacy is based on the fact that readers can identify with the situations, experiences, emotions, characters and movements expressed in the texts. Therefore, the project aimed to find answer to the following research question: Which aspects of identification can be found in the psalms of the Hebrew Bible? So the aim of this project was it to analyse strategies of the texts, which enable readers to identify with the text-world described in the psalms.
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In this article I intend to show how female and male protagonists are portrayed in the poems of the Song of Songs narrating a plot. After giving specific reasons for choosing Cant 2:8–14; 3:1–5 and 5:2–8, textual criticism and syntactic... more
In this article I intend to show how female and male protagonists are portrayed in the poems of the Song of Songs narrating a plot. After giving specific reasons for choosing Cant 2:8–14; 3:1–5 and 5:2–8, textual criticism and syntactic and semantic analysis of these texts are presented. A synchronic perspective is used to bring out elements of the texts which are repeated in the poems for several times and therefore can be linked. Finally I read these three poems as one story – this way discovering also problematic and disturbing parts of the Song of Songs and differentiating the conventional understanding of the biblical book as a celebration of mutual desire and fulfillment.
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The article starts with a definition of „violence“ in the German language and later on presents seven theses through which it should be easier to understand texts of the Old Testament that speak about violence. The Bible addresses, as a... more
The article starts with a definition of „violence“ in the German language and later on presents seven theses through which it should be easier to understand texts of the Old Testament that speak about violence. The Bible addresses, as a realistic book, all human issues and anchors them in the horizon of faith. Therefore, also violence in all its different forms is mentioned in the Bible in a very dramatic way. Starting with the connexion between speech and violence also psalms of lamentation will be described. Stories of the Book of Judges about male and female violent activities will be connected with current analyses of gender and critical men’s studies. (Sexual) violence against women (2Sam 13) and violence in the images of God (Ex 14) will also be presented. At the end, prophetic texts which speak about hope and peace present ahimsa and the overcoming of violence.
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In this article I intend to show how female and male protagonists are portrayed in the poems of the Song of Songs narrating a plot. After giving specific reasons for choosing Cant 2:8–14; 3:1–5 and 5:2–8, textual criticism and syntactic... more
In this article I intend to show how female and male protagonists are portrayed in the poems of the Song of Songs narrating a plot. After giving specific reasons for choosing Cant 2:8–14; 3:1–5 and 5:2–8, textual criticism and syntactic and semantic analysis of these texts are presented. A synchronic perspective is used to bring out elements of the texts which are repeated in the poems for several times and therefore can be linked. Finally I read these three poems as one story – this way discovering also problematic and disturbing parts of the Song of Songs and differentiating the conventional understanding of the biblical book as a celebration of mutual desire and fulfillment.
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Der folgende Beitrag stellt nach Darstellung des Erzahlzusammenhangs, Inhalts und Aufbaus des alttestamentlichen Buches Exodus die Erzahlung von Ex 3,1–17 in den Mittelpunkt. Schwerpunkte der Auslegung bilden dabei die Analyse der Orte,... more
Der folgende Beitrag stellt nach Darstellung des Erzahlzusammenhangs, Inhalts und Aufbaus des alttestamentlichen Buches Exodus die Erzahlung von Ex 3,1–17 in den Mittelpunkt. Schwerpunkte der Auslegung bilden dabei die Analyse der Orte, wie der Gottesberg Horeb, der brennende und nicht verbrennende Dornbusch, der heilige Boden und das Land, das von Milchund Honig uberfliest. Dabei wird vor allem auf die Bildersprache und die symbolisch-metaphorischen Konnotationen der Begriffe Bezug genommen. Zentral sind ebenso die Charakterisierung des Mose und jene der Begegnung zwischen Mose und Gott sowie die Bezeichnungen fur Gott und die Bedeutung des Gottesnamens. Die Aufnahme der Erzahlung in der judischenund islamischen Tradition rundet den Beitrag ab.
This paper contributes to the critical gender discourse by aiming to highlight the relationship between acts of violence and the construction of maleness and femaleness in Jdg 4. After defining how to speak about violence and gender in... more
This paper contributes to the critical gender discourse by aiming to highlight the relationship between acts of violence and the construction of maleness and femaleness in Jdg 4. After defining how to speak about violence and gender in the Bible, the presentation of Jael in Jdg 4:17–22 will be analysed through a narrative text analysis, through an inner-biblical intertextual approach and through the comparison between the commentaries on Jdg 4 and the biblical text itself. Combining the theory about violence and gender with these three analytical steps, the paper attempts to critically evaluate the effects of gender stereotyping in the discourse about violent women.
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While Lady Wisdom, Zion and Jerusalem, for example, are well-known and frequently analyzed personifications in the Old Testament, the study of personifications in the book of psalms is a research desideratum. After presenting the... more
While Lady Wisdom, Zion and Jerusalem, for example, are well-known and frequently analyzed personifications in the Old Testament, the study of personifications in the book of psalms is a research desideratum. After presenting the theoretical background of the term personification with special focus on the function of the verb, I will present the results of verb personifications in the psalter followed by a textual analysis of the personified virtues of steadfast love, truth, justice and peace in Ps 85:11. One example of the encounter between justice and peace in the form of a kiss, from Christian reception history, forms the last part of the article. The paper aims to contribute to the broad and intense discussion of metaphor analysis in psalms research on the three levels of theory, of textual analysis of the whole book of psalms and of Ps 85,11 and the reception history of metaphors.
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Storytelling in the psalter is usually attributed to those psalms which relate stories of the history of Israel. Narratology, the theory and procedure of studying narrative representations, is usually applied to narratives. However, there... more
Storytelling in the psalter is usually attributed to those psalms which relate stories of the history of Israel. Narratology, the theory and procedure of studying narrative representations, is usually applied to narratives. However, there are certain features in the psalms, which allow us to define them as narrative texts and therefore examine them by means of narratology. This paper aims to contribute to a genre-overlapping approach towards poetry by means of opening the way to showing the benefits, as well as limitations of narratology applied to poetical texts by applying the narratological categories narrator/ narrative voice, plot/build-up of tension, characters and characterization, as well as time and space to Psalm. 64.
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This paper contributes to the critical gender discourse by aiming to highlight the relationship between acts of violence and the construction of maleness and femaleness in Jdg 4. After defining how to speak about violence and gender in... more
This paper contributes to the critical gender discourse by aiming to highlight the relationship between acts of violence and the construction of maleness and femaleness in Jdg 4. After defining how to speak about violence and gender in the Bible, the presentation of Jael in Jdg 4:17-22 will be analysed through a narrative text analysis, through an inner-biblical intertextual approach and through the comparison between the commentaries on Jdg 4 and the biblical text itself. Combining the theory about violence and gender with these three analytical steps, the paper attempts to critically evaluate the effects of gender stereotyping in the discourse about violent women.
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While Lady Wisdom, Zion and Jerusalem, for example, are well-known and frequently analyzed personifications in the Old Testament, the study of personifications in the book of psalms is a research desideratum. After presenting the... more
While Lady Wisdom, Zion and Jerusalem, for example, are well-known and frequently analyzed personifications in the Old Testament, the study of personifications in the book of psalms is a research desideratum. After presenting the theoretical background of the term personification with special focus on the function of the verb, I will present the results of verb personifications in the psalter followed by a textual analysis of the personified virtues of steadfast love, truth, justice and peace in Ps 85:11. One example of the encounter between justice and peace in the form of a kiss, from Christian reception history, forms the last part of the article. The paper aims to contribute to the broad and intense discussion of metaphor analysis in psalms research on the three levels of theory, of textual analysis of the whole book of psalms and of Ps 85,11 and the reception history of metaphors.
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The psalms are often called into texts frozen dialogues. Therefore, they offer a special communicative design in which the God of Israel is characterized by actions that he/she does, actions that are desired and requested of him/her, as... more
The psalms are often called into texts frozen dialogues. Therefore, they offer a special communicative design in which the God of Israel is characterized by actions that he/she does, actions that are desired and requested of him/her, as well as by divine names and attributes. After presenting some core theoretical concepts regarding the character-analysis in literary texts, the exemplary analysis of Ps 86, which stands out through its chain of imperatives and adjectives referring to God, will be implemented. These results will be combined with the outcomes of the analysis of all imperatives addressing God in the psalter including negations, as well as of the analysis of different names and appellations for God in the psalms. Therewith, the paper aims to contribute to the analysis of the character of God in the psalms from a narratological point of view, which is quite a fresh approach within the discourse of analysis of poetry.
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Der vorliegende Band folgt dem Stundengebet der klösterlichen Gemeinschaften und lädt ein, den Alltag zu durchbrechen und dabei die biblischen Psalmen in unter-schiedlichen Formen zu betrachten, zu meditieren und zu beten. Diese... more
Der vorliegende Band folgt dem Stundengebet der klösterlichen Gemeinschaften und lädt ein, den Alltag zu durchbrechen und dabei die biblischen Psalmen in unter-schiedlichen Formen zu betrachten, zu meditieren und zu beten. Diese Unterbre-chung des Alltags soll dabei helfen, zur eigenen Mitte zu finden und sich auf Gott auszurichten. Die Herausgeberinnen Marie-Luise Langwald und Isolde Niehüser so-wie unterschiedliche Autorinnen haben sowohl ausgewählte Psalmen aus dem alttes-tamentlichen Buch der Psalmen wie auch Psalmen, die biblischen Frauengestalten zugeschrieben werden, als auch von unterschiedlichen Frauen verfasste aktuelle Gebete, die Psalmen nachempfunden werden, zusammengestellt. Damit stellt der Band jene alttestamentlichen Texten ins Zentrum der Betrachtung, die die größte Vielfalt an Lebensthemen und Erfahrungsräumen zur Sprache bringen und durch ihre Bildersprache, inhaltliche Tiefe, Lebensechtheit und Lebensnähe sowie emotionale Qualität seit jeher Lesende und Betende in den Bann ziehen. Die Publikation, die aus drei Teilen besteht, präsentiert verschiedene Tagzeitenliturgien, Gottesdienstmodelle, Gebete und Lieder mit der Einladung zur Feier und zur Meditation.
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Sigrid Eder (2018) Das vorliegende Buch ist eine von Björn Gerstenberger angefertigte Übersetzung eines brasilianisch verfassten Arbeitsbuches aus dem Portugiesischen ins Deutsche. Der Autor des Arbeitsbuches, Erhard Gerstenberger, der... more
Sigrid Eder (2018) Das vorliegende Buch ist eine von Björn Gerstenberger angefertigte Übersetzung eines brasilianisch verfassten Arbeitsbuches aus dem Portugiesischen ins Deutsche. Der Autor des Arbeitsbuches, Erhard Gerstenberger, der längere Aufenthalte im " ge-lobten Land der Befreiungstheologie " Brasilien (S. 7) absolvierte, bleibt dabei seinem Ansatz einer sozial-und religionsgeschichtlichen Einordnung und Auslegung der Psalmen treu. Das 155 Seiten umfassende Buch besteht aus elf Kapiteln, welche nach der Einfüh-rung und der Bestimmung der Psalmengattungen (Kapitel I) der klassischen gat-tungskritischen Zuordnung der Psalmen in Klage-und Danklieder des Einzelnen (Kapitel II), in kollektive Klage-und Danklieder (Kapitel III), in Hymnen als Ernte-und Siegeslieder (Kapitel IV), in Lobeshymnen (Kapitel V) und in Hymnen über Zion, Exodus und die Schöpfung (Kapitel VI) folgen. Daran anschließend finden sich zwei Kapitel über die Psalmen der Reflexion und Lehre (Kapitel VII und Kapitel VIII). Den krönenden Abschluss der Studie bilden Ausführungen über die theologischen Di-mensionen des Psalters mit Schwerpunkt auf den Gottesbildern, der Verwendung der Psalmen im Rahmen der je eigenen Spiritualität sowie im Leben der Gemeinde und der Poesie der Psalmen, deren Bildersprache, den Psalmenüberschriften und der kanonischen Lektüre des Psalters (Kapitel IX–XI). Ein theologisch feinfühlig formulierter Epilog mit Appellcharakter schließt das Arbeitsbuch ab.