Abstract
It is widely acknowledged that the far-reaching development of yeṣer as a theological and anthropological concept has little to do with the use of this word in the Hebrew Bible. Still, it is often asserted that the link between the biblical employment of yeṣer and its demonized hypostases in later literature is anchored in a semantic change that took place already in Biblical Hebrew (BH). Following earlier Bible scholars, Ishay Rosen-Zvi has recently summarized the scholarly consensus at the opening of his comprehensive study, Demonic Desires: “The root יצר […] denotes [in the Hebrew Bible] the creating, fashioning, and designing of objects (mostly made of clay). … The noun indicates the result of this craft: an object or a creature (Hab 2:18).
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and Christianity |
| Place of Publication | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 13-32 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781108470827 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2021 |
RAMBI Publications
- Rambi Publications
- Bible -- Language, style
- Hebrew language, Biblical -- Terms and phrases
- Yetzer hara (Judaism)