Networks of metaphors in the Hebrew Bible / edited by Danilo Verde, Antje Labahn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Verde, Danilo, 1979- editor.

Labahn, Antje, editor.

Series:

Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium ; 309.

Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium ; 309

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament.

Metaphor in the Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Language, style.

Bible.

Physical Description:

x, 395, 9 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters 2020.

Summary:

In continuity with the previous BETL volumes on biblical metaphors, namely Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible edited by Pierre Van Hecke (BETL 187; 2005), and Metaphors in the Psalms co-edited by Pierre Van Hecke and Antje Labahn (BETL 231; 2010), this third volume intends to contribute to and foster biblical research on metaphors by focusing on a phenomenon that has only received scant attention thus far, namely the relationship and interplay between different metaphors in the texts of the Hebrew Bible. Biblical metaphors very often come in chains, especially in poetry, in which individual metaphors may interact in a number of ways, e.g. they may modify, reverse, shift, and even contradict or reinforce the previous ones. Biblical metaphors often create families of metaphors that form a genuine repertoire of images to think and talk about a specific target domain from multiple viewpoints. The same source domain often inspires clusters of thoughts about a wide variety of realities. The same "root metaphor" may run throughout an entire book or a section of a book, emerging on the surface level of the text in many ways and interacting with other metaphors along the text continuum. 'Networks of Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible' investigates biblical metaphors not as "isolated events of discourse" but as constantly intertwining and shaping a network of multiple interactions between the figures. --Book cover.

Contents:

On the interplay of metaphors in the Hebrew Bible / Danilo Verde

"Who is like You among the gods, O YHWH!" (Exod 15,11): the interweaving of metaphors in the Song of the Sea / Danilo Verde

The affective dimension of metaphor clusters in Deuteronomy 4 / Alison Gray

Metaphorical clusters in Isaiah 1-39 / Francis Landy

If the blind walk: the cognitive metaphor Knowing is seeing and its elaboration in Isa 42,16 / Boris Lazzaro

From terror to embrace: deliberate blending of metaphors in Jeremiah 30-31 / Georg Fischer

Nature imagery in the interplay between different metaphors in the Book of Ezekiel / Dalit Rom-Shiloni

Of burning ovens, half-baked cakes, and helpless birds: exploring a cluster of metaphors in Hosea 7 / Göran Eidevall

The network of the daughter Zion metaphor and other metaphors in the Book of Micah / Juan Cruz

The Lord of Hosts cares for His flock: mapping the shepherd metaphor in Second Zechariah Ryan P. Bonfiglio

Commingled metaphrs in the Bible and beyond / Andrea L. Weiss

From well-fed lions to sitting ducks: a study of complex metaphors in Psalm 17 / Stefan M. Attard

Various types of metaphors and their different functions in Psalm 51 / Ellen van Wolde

Metaphors of space and time: imagining stability in the Fourth Book of Psalms / Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher

"Even the sparrow has found a home" (Ps 84,4): from uprooting and wandering to safety and intimacy / Tova L. Forti

"When a bird flies through the air": enigmatic paths of birds in wisdom literature / Katharine J. Dell

Arbors among aphorisms: the anatomy of the tree in the Book of Proverbs / Christopher B. Ansberry

Metaphoric chains in the dialogues of Job: a case in point / Edward L. Greenstein, Nehamit Peri

A play on plants: metaphorical networks in Job 12-14 / Pierre Van Hecke

Metaphor and metonymy in the Canticle: a parable of desireh Jean-Pierre Sonnet

Qohelet as a master of and mastered by metaphor / Craig G. Bartholomew

God as a gleaning cook: a conceptual metaphor of Exodus in Lamentations LXX 2, 20-21 / Antje Labahn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

British Library not licensed to copy 0.

ISBN:

9789042942103

904294210X

OCLC:

1154785677