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Mixing Metaphors

Mixing Metaphors

Dille, Sarah J.

Hardcover

Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, Book 398

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 0826471560
ISBN13: 9780826471567
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 15 2004
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.94 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

While most treatments of biblical metaphor examine individual metaphors in isolation, Sarah J. Dille presents a model for interpretation based on their interaction with one another. Using Lakoff and Johnson's category of metaphoric coherence, she argues that when nonconsistent or contradictory metaphors appear together in a literary unit, the areas of overlap (coherence) are highlighted in each.

Using the images of father and mother in Deutero-Isaiah as a starting point, she explores how these images interact with others: for example, the divine warrior, the redeeming kinsman, the artisan of clay, or the husband. The juxtaposition of diverse metaphors (common in Hebrew prophetic literature) highlights common entailments, enabling the reader to see aspects of the image which would be overlooked or invisible if read in isolation. Dille argues that any metaphor for God can only be understood if it is read or heard in interaction with others within a particular cultural context.

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