Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Surveying the Water: Introductory Matters
1.1. Why Fishing Imagery?
1.2. What Fishing Imagery?
1.3. Previous Studies and the Scope of This Study
1.4. Methodology
1.5. The World of the Fisher
1.6. Fishing Terminology in the Hebrew Bible
Chapter 2. Heavenly Fishing: Divine Fishers in the Ancient Near East
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Divine Fishers in the Ancient Near East
2.3. Divine Fishers in the Hebrew Bible (Jeremiah 16:16–18)
2.4. Synthesis
Chapter 3. Fishers of Men: Divine Discipline as Fishing Image
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Textual Analysis (Amos 4:1?3; Habakkuk 1:14–17; Ezekiel 12:13–14; 17:16–21; 19:1–9)
3.3. Synthesis
Chapter 4. Monster Mash: "Big-Game" Fishing Imagery
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Hebrew Bible (Job 40:25–32; Ezekiel 29:1–6a; 32:1–10)
4.3. Enuma Elish
4.4.Synthesis
Chapter 5. Deadliest Catch: Fishing Imagery and Tragedy
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Mesopotamian Literature
5.3. Hebrew Bible (Qohelet 9:11–12)
5.4. Synthesis
Chapter 6. "It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times": Fishing Imagery, Polarity, and Prophetic Literature
6.1. Introduction
6.2. It Was the Worst of Times (Isaiah 19:5–10; Ezekiel 26:1–14)
6.3. It Was the Best of Times Where God Dwells (Ezekiel 47:1–12)
6.4. Shattering Stereotypes and Transforming Tropes
Chapter 7. Reeling It In: Concluding Reflections
Bibliography
Indexes
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture
Index of Subjects and Other Ancient Sources
Acknowledgments