Metaphor at Sinai: Cognitive Linguistics in the Decalogue and Covenant Code

Recent studies in cognitive linguistics demonstrate metaphor’s indispensability to meaning. Still, the presence of metaphor in biblical law is largely unrecognized. Utilizing Zoltán Kövecses’s categories of complex conceptual metaphor - orientational, ontological, and structural - this essay identif...

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Main Author: Imes, Carmen Joy 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn State University Press [2019]
In: Bulletin for biblical research
Year: 2019, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 342-360
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Theory
B Covenant Code
B orientational metaphor
B Decalogue
B structural metaphor
B Metaphor
B Election
B Conceptual Metaphor
B Exodus 20:1-17
B ontological metaphor
B Exodus 20:23-23:19
B Exodus 20:7
B Kövecses
B Biblical Law
B Book of the Covenant
B metonymy
B synecdoche
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