The Lord of the East Wind (The Catholic Biblical Quarterly. Monograph Series, 34)

By Aloysius Fitzgerald. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 210-216) And Indexes. The Lord of the East Wind / Aloysius Fitzgerald, F.S.C.......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 Part I: The Palestinian Sirocco......Page 18 1. Hosea 13:14-15......Page 31 2. Nahum 1:2-8......Page 34 3. Isaiah 19:1, 5-7......Page 42 4. Isaiah 50:2-3......Page 44 5. Jeremiah 51:34-37, 42-45......Page 45 1. Isaiah 13:2-22......Page 51 2. Jeremiah 4:5-31......Page 53 3. Jeremiah 25:30-38......Page 59 4. Deuteronomy 32:21-25......Page 63 5. Lamentations 2......Page 66 Part IV: The Miracle at the Sea, Exodus 15:1b-18 + 21b......Page 73 Part V: Combined Siroccos and Rainstorms......Page 78 1. Isaiah 34-35......Page 79 2. Isaiah 30:27-33......Page 86 3. Habakkuk 3:2-19......Page 89 4. Psalm 18:8-10 (= 2 Samuel 22:8-10)......Page 104 5. Isaiah 29:1-8......Page 107 6. Psalms 96-97......Page 111 Part VI: Joel 1-4......Page 117 1. ybš/ḥrb Used of Bodies of Water......Page 136 2. Disease (dbr, qṭb, ršp) and the Sirocco......Page 138 3. swph......Page 140 4. sʿr (śʿr) / sʿrh (śʿrh)......Page 143 5. ʿnn......Page 146 7. Withering Vegetation......Page 148 8. zʿm......Page 149 9. ḥrwn (ʾp)......Page 157 10. ḥmh......Page 166 11. Flying qš, mṣ, glgl, tbn......Page 175 12. ʾš + ʾkl......Page 177 13. The Dead or Frightened Fish......Page 182 14. The Chariot in Sirocco Contexts......Page 185 15. Agricultural Land Becoming a Desert......Page 186 17. tnyn in Sirocco Contexts......Page 189 18. The Sodom and gpryt Motifs......Page 192 19. ʿbrh......Page 196 20. The ywm Yhwh......Page 199 21. bʿr......Page 207 22. lhṭ......Page 208 Conclusion......Page 209 Bibliography of Works Cited......Page 217 Index......Page 224 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. Fitzgerald points out how frequently we make the error of ignoring the weather in our reading of biblical texts.