TY - BOOK ID - 67228563 TI - Life preservation in Genesis and Exodus : an exegetical study of the Tebâ of Noah and Moses PY - 2020 VL - 98 SN - 9789042940710 9042940719 9789042940727 PB - Leuven Peeters DB - UniCat KW - 221.02*1 KW - 221.02*1 Oud Testament: bijbelse filologie: hebreeuws KW - Oud Testament: bijbelse filologie: hebreeuws UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67228563 AB - Tebâ' is found exclusively in Gen 6-9 and Exod 2:1-10 for the vessels of Noah and Moses, respectively. Suggestive of an inter-textual relationship, tebâ is exegetically investigated to identify its source language and meaning to thereby determine its biblical appropriation and theological signification. Once the Flood Narrative and Foundling Narrative are synchronically and diachronically analysed, Babylonian and Egyptian languages, literature, and lexemes are examined to determine the source of tebâ; also, a recension history of scriptural traditions and daughter translations of the Flood and Foundling Narratives is charted. Exod 15:1-21 is examined, further, to extend the narratival arch of Exod to match that of Gen 6-9, which includes synthetic cosmological and covenantal elements, and temple ideology. Theologically, therefore, the multivocality of tebâ intimates God?s enshrined protection of a person from threat of death unto renewed life; thus, tebâ is a terminus technicus for a life-preserving receptacle. ER -