Screen LibraryThe metaphorical use of language in deuterocanonical and cognate literature /
Metaphors are a vital linguistic component of religious speech and serve as a cultural indicator of how groups understand themselves and the world. The essays compiled in this volume analyze the use, function, and structure of metaphors in Jewish writings from the Hellenistic-Roman period (including...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Deuterocanonical and cognate literature: yearbook;
2014/2015 |
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| Summary: |
Metaphors are a vital linguistic component of religious speech and serve as a cultural indicator of how groups understand themselves and the world. The essays compiled in this volume analyze the use, function, and structure of metaphors in Jewish writings from the Hellenistic-Roman period (including the works of Philo and the texts of Qumran), as well as in apocryphal early Christian texts and inscriptions. |
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1 online resource (xi, 554 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110373998 |
| Index Number: | BS1700 |
| CLC: | B971.1 |
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Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Die besondere Rede / (Some) Domains of Metaphor in Hellenistic Literature / Das Licht Gottes" Metaphern in der Tobiterz hlung / Metaphors and the Character Construction of Tobias in the Book of Tobit / The Book of Judith as a Reversal of the Sexual and Marital Metaphors in Jeremiah 2:20 3:20 and Hosea 1 3 / ...indem er Feuer und W rmer in ihr Fleisch gibt" (Jdt 16,17) / Arboreal Metaphors and Botanical Symbolism in the Theodotion Susanna Narrative / Gebrauch und Funktionen der metaphorischen Rede im 1. Makkab erbuch / Metaphern im 2. Makkab erbuch / Metaphern bei Josephus: Soll man, kann man sie bersetzen? / Metaphern im Septuaginta-Psalter / Auferstehungsmetaphorik in der Septuaginta des Hiobbuches / Von der fremden Frau" zu Frau Torheit" / Garment Imagery in the Book of Ben Sira / Metaphors in 4 Maccabees / Metapher und Allegorie bei Philon von Alexandrien / Accomodating the Political: Philo s King Metaphor / Metaphors in the Closing Verses of the Book of Baruch / Leben in Metaphern / Creation Encrypted: Ontology through Metaphor / Metaphor and the Poetics of Scriptural Rewriting in Jubilees / J dische Metaphern im Thomasevangelium / Kognitive Metapher Anderssein ist eine Grenze" im antiken Judentum und Urchristentum / Metaphorical Redefinition of Church Space through LXX Texts on Christian Monuments from Asia Minor / Some Metaphors in Early Rabbinic Liturgy / |