We would like to underscore that the issues of a widow and an orphan on the Bible pages are complicated ones and thereby are central. The main aim of the work is to analyze the specific features of a widow's image and status on the Bible pages, to consider semantic contexts of an image, to follow the parallels between the images of an orphan and a widow, to conceive a loneliness phenomenon and orphans' and widows' protection on the holy texts' pages.Ī "widow" according to Biblical norms and Judaic moral principles is a woman who all her time has devoted to a child and God after her husband's death, for this reason she is not searching another man or wasting time on friends, entertainments, or on herself. īy contrast to the works in which a widow's image (and peripherally an orphan's one) are considered in context, we fundamentally raise an issue of a widow's status and image in the Biblical tradition. The loneliness phenomenon as a context of a woman- widow existence is followed in M. The comparative analysis of a widow's image in Ukrainian and Biblical traditions is in a focus of S. The accents of power, greatness, loneliness, and almost king's authority have been put in a close parallel with an acknowledgement of a widow's protection of Heaven. The ground based analysis of Judith widow's image has been given by English researcher Makrina Scott.
The author has an original idea to narrate in the first person to give an opportunity for us to hear the women' voices. The Bible histories of women are extremely short in the author's vision of Robert Strand. The most of modern Midrashes have appeared on the base of synagogues' sermons in order to fill the blank places in holy texts. The Midrashes were the result of Hebrew scientists work, who looked for a true meaning of holy texts and their applications in modern world.
The word has its roots in the verbs "to research", "to find out", "to discover". That style can be conditionally named as a Midrash. A special style narration about the Biblical women should be noticed. Robert Strand applies to the problem of a widow's status in his works, Namely, he has conceived a special attitude to a widow through analyses of women' images in the Old and New Testament. The analyses of recent studies and publications. The priorities are to provide a philosophical consideration of a widow's image sacral context in the Bible tradition and to find out a widow's spiritual status. For instance, a typical attribute is a constant parallel coherence of a widow and an orphan protection on the Bible's pages. However, it can be stated that the key ideas which are the grounds of a widow's image in the Bible have remained untouched. Namely, a true ancient understanding of a widow's image has been lost in repeated translations of the Bible texts. The consideration of a spiritual widow's status has some difficulties and superstitions. It is a woman-widow, who has obtained a special attitude, special status attributes, and special rites' functions, occupied an ambiguous place in social conscience. Nevertheless, in this "festival of life" an image of another women category has been highlighted.
The magic of sensuality and participation in a mystery of birth has led to careful and confidential attitude to a woman.
A girl - woman (wife) - mother, all the statuses are included into a threefold issue which has been a crucial point for any nation's worldview.Ī woman's image has always embodied an idea of motherhood, an idea of life, an idea of bloodline assurance, etc. Khrypko Svitlana, Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy,Īssociate professor, Philosophy department The valued focus of a widow and an orphan statuses and scale of protection in the old and new testament tradition
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