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Sensing World, Sensing Wisdom: The Cognitive Foundation of Biblical Metaphors

Sensing World, Sensing Wisdom: The Cognitive Foundation of Biblical Metaphors - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Nicole L. TilfordPublish date:2017-04-01Pages:258
Language:EnglishPublisher:SBL PressISBN-13:9781628371758ISBN-10:1628371757UPC:9781628371758Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Biblical Criticism & Interpretation, Biblical StudiesBook Topic:Old Testament, Exegesis & HermeneuticsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SC1JZJ4H6A

The Bible is full of metaphors. On the surface, these metaphors seem like simple literary flourishes that have been added to the text for artistic effect. This book, however, argues that biblical metaphors reflect more basic, prelinguistic cognitive structures. These conceptual metaphors developed out of common concrete experiences and only gradually developed into the complex metaphors that one finds within biblical texts. This book explores how common sensory activities like seeing, hearing, touching, eating, breathing, and walking developed into the abstract metaphors for wisdom that one finds in Proverbs, Job, and Qohelet. Because it traces the cognitive development of a set of related metaphors across several congruent texts, it provides a model by which scholars can trace the cognitive development of biblical metaphors more generally in the Hebrew Bible and other early Jewish and Christian texts.


Language:EnglishPublisher:SBL PressISBN-13:9781628371758ISBN-10:1628371757UPC:9781628371758Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Biblical Criticism & Interpretation, Biblical StudiesBook Topic:Old Testament, Exegesis & HermeneuticsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SC1JZJ4H6A
Publisher: SBL Press

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