Metaphors in the Prophetic Literature of the Hebrew Bible and Beyond / / edited by David Davage, Mikael Larsson, and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer.

• Superior document: Journal of Ancient Judaism - Supplements Series ; Volume 36
• TeilnehmendeR: Davage, David Willgren, 1983-; Larsson, Mikael,; Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia, 1969-
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn, Germany : : Brill Schöningh,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Journal of ancient Judaism. Supplements ; Volume 36.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Eidevall Publications -- Part I Divine Metaphors -- Kapitel 1. A Compound With Death (and Yāh): "Fields of Māwet" in Isa 16:8 and Jer 31:40, with Comparanda (šdmt, šḥlmmt, nhmmt, blmt, šalhebetyāh, ṣalmāwet, ṣôpiyyāh, etc.) -- Kapitel 2. The Volatile Deity: God's "No, Yes, No, Yes" in the Book of Hosea -- Kapitel 3. Amos 5:26-27 and 9:11-12 in the Damascus Document -- Part II Human Metaphors -- Kapitel 4. The Fruitfulness of the Vineyard Metaphor: Isaiah 5 and Beyond -- Kapitel 5. Metaphorisation and the Emergence of a Target Text Metaphor: Four Centuries of Translating npš in the Book of Ezekiel -- Kapitel 6. Malachi's Metaphorical Divorce: Reading Marital Faithlessness as Cult Criticism with a Little Help from Blending Theory -- Part III Animal Metaphors -- Kapitel 7. Among Hyenas, Demons, and Barn Owls (Isa 34:11, 13-15): The Disarmament of a Resistance Text in the Swahili Bibles -- Kapitel 8. When God Becomes the Enemy: On the Function of the Leonine Metaphor in Isaiah 38:13 -- Kapitel 9. The Rhetoric of Fear in Amos 1-3: Cognitive Perspectives on the Lion Imagery -- Kapitel 10. "The Lion Has Roared. Who Is not Frightened?" (Amos 3:8): Metaphorical Speeches in the Book of Amos -- Kapitel 11. Lingering Lions: Contemporary Uses of Metaphors from the Prophetic Literature of the Hebrew Bible in the Public Sphere of Sweden -- Part IV Inanimate Metaphors -- Kapitel 12. Clothes, Sticks, and Sisters: Metaphorising the Relationship between Israel and Judah in the Hebrew Bible -- Kapitel 13. "Like a Booth in a Vineyard": The Remnant Theology in the Book of Isaiah and Its Implications on Early Jewish and Christian Reception History -- Kapitel 14. The Community as the New Axis Mundi: The Stone Imagery of Isaiah 28:16 and its reception in 1QS and 1QHa.

Kapitel 15. Israel as the Remnant and the Root: An Analysis of Covenantal Metaphors in Romans 9:27 and 11:16-24 -- Index of Authors -- Index of Passages -- Index of Conceptual Metaphors -- Index of Subjects -- Contributors.