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Document Details : Title: Vögel als Entsorger negativer Kräfte in biblischen, ägyptischen und altorientalischen Texten Author(s): BOJOWALD, Stefan Journal: Biblica Volume: 101 Issue: 2 Date: 2020 Pages: 272-276 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.101.2.3288266 Abstract : This short paper compares Hebrew and Egyptian text passages on the role of birds as disposers of negative forces. Lev 14,49-53 describes the cleansing of a house from leprosy by letting fly a bird. In the Egyptian case, P. Ramesseum 3 B 33, a swallow symbolically takes away a childhood sickness. Comparable motifs are also found in Hittite and Babylonian texts. |
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