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Metaphorical Landscapes and the Theology of the Book of Job

An Analysis of Job’s Spatial Metaphors
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Metaphorical Landscapes and the Theology of the Book of Job demonstrates how spatial metaphors play a crucial role in the theology of the book of Job. Themes as pivotal as trauma, ill-being, retribution, and divine character are conceptualized in terms of space; its imagery is thus dependent on spatial configurations, such as boundaries, distance, direction, containment, and contact. Not only are spatial metaphors ubiquitous in the book of Job—possibly the most frequent conceptual metaphors in the book—they are essential to its theological reasoning. Job’s spatial metaphors form a metaphorical landscape in which God’s character and his creation are challenged in unprecedented ways. In the theophany, God reacts to that landscape. This book introduces a pragmatic synthesis of both conceptual metaphor theory and spatial semantics and it demonstrates their exegetical and hermeneutic potential.

Author Biography:

Johan de Joode, Ph.D. 2015, KU Leuven, worked at the Universities of Nottingham and Birmingham, and is now a KU Leuven research fellow specializing in corpus and cognitive linguistics as applied to Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls
Release date Australia
December 20th, 2018
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Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
274
ISBN-13
9789004388840
Product ID
28356424

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