Sexual and marital metaphors in Hosea, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel / Sharon Moughtin-Mumby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moughtin, Sharon, 1976-

Series:

Oxford theological monographs.

Oxford theological monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Prophets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Metaphor in the Bible.

Sex in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sharon Moughtin-Mumby considers the often unrecognised impact of different approaches to metaphor on readings of the prophtic sexual and marital metaphorical language. She outlines a practical and consciously simplified approach to metaphor, placing strong emphasis on the influence of literary context on metaphorical meaning. Drawing on this approach, she read Hosea 4-14, Jeremiah 2:1-4:4, Isaiah, Ezekiel 16 and 23, and Hosea 1-3 with fresh eyes.Her lucid new readings reveal the way in which scholarship has repeatedly stifled the prophetic metaphorical language by reading it within the 'defaul

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Mapping the Field; Traditional scholarship; Feminist scholarship; Literary-historical approaches; Mapping the field: a wider perspective; A Cognitive, Contextual Approach to Metaphorical Language; Living, dead, and dormant metaphor; The Co-operative Reader and the Resistant Reader; A Literary-Historical Approach; Associated commonplaces and socio-historical reconstruction; A Diachronic Approach; The Scope of the Study; 1. Hosea 4-14; Hosea 4-14: The Wider Frame; Metaphorical language in Hosea 4-14; Simile and metaphor in Hosea 4-14

Metaphorical language and fertility/sterility in Hosea 4-14Metaphorical language, repetition, and intratextuality in Hosea 4-14; Metaphorical language and word-play in Hosea 4-14; Sexual and Marital Metaphorical Language in Hosea 4-14; 'Prostitution' and word-play in Hosea 4-14; Wider sexual and marital metaphorical language in Hosea 4-14; A meeting of metaphor and metonym: Hosea 4: 13-14; Reflections; 2. Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4; Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4: The Wider Frame; Repetition in Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4; Rhetorical questions in Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4

Sexual and Marital Metaphorical Language in Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4'Prostitution' in Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4; Wider sexual and marital metaphorical language in Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4; Sexual and Marital Metaphorical Language in Jeremiah 3: 6-11; Reflections; 3. Isaiah; Sexual and Marital Metaphorical Language in Isaiah 1-39; Isaiah 40-55: The Wider Frame; The theme of transformation in Isaiah 40-55; Rhetorical questions in Isaiah 40-55; Sexual and Marital Metaphorical Language in Isaiah 40-55; Sexual and Marital Metaphorical Language in Isaiah 56-66; Reflections; 4. Ezekiel 16 and 23

Ezekiel 16 and 23: The ChallengeThe Book of Ezekiel; Extended metaphorical language in Ezekiel; Narrative structure in Ezekiel; Ezekiel 16; Ezekiel 16A: the wider frame; Sexual and marital metaphorical language in Ezekiel 16A; Ezekiel 23; Ezekiel 23B; Ezekiel 23A: the wider frame; Sexual and marital metaphorical language in Ezekiel 23A; Ezekiel 16A and 23A: 'Sister Narratives'; Reflections; 5. Hosea 1-3; Hosea 1-3 and Four Pervasive Assumptions; Assumption 1; Assumption 2; Excursus 1 into prophetic sign-act narratives; Assumption 3; Excursus 2 into prophetic sign-act narratives; Assumption 4

Hosea 1-3: An ApproachHosea 1; Sign-act 1; Sign-act 2; Sign-act 3; Sign-act 4; Hosea 1: a summary; Hosea 3; Sign-act 5; Sign-act 6; Sexual and marital metaphorical language in Hosea 3; Hosea 3: a summary; Hosea 2; Hosea 2A; Hosea 2B; Hosea 2B and 4-14; Reading the Final Form of Hosea; Reflections; Conclusions; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-299) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-152883-8

1-281-85284-8

9786611852849

OCLC:

328097542