Metaphors in the Prophetic Literature of the Hebrew Bible and Beyond

✍ Scribed by David Davage; Mikael Larsson; Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

• Publisher: Brill Schöningh
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 405
• Series: Journal of Ancient Judaism - Supplements, 36
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection of articles is tightly focused on metaphors in the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible and their later afterlife in Jewish and Christian texts. The essays deal with a wide range of historical, literary, and methodological issues. First, several contributions employ metaphor theory in analysing the biblical texts, both conceptual frameworks such as blending theory and more traditional methods. Second, metaphors are studied both synchronically, that is, in relation to their current literary contexts, and diachronically, that is, mapping how they have been employed and re-interpreted in different ways and different texts throughout time. Third, other contributions read metaphors in light of theoretical frameworks such as feminist criticism, post-colonial theories, or power discourses that uncover aspects of significance often missed in historical studies. Finally, yet other contributions deal with the issue of how to translate metaphors in contemporary contexts.

✦ Table of Contents

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