Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Danilo Verde explores the Song of Songs' use of military language to describe both love and lovers from the perspective of cognitive metaphor theory. Love is war is one of the main recurring themes of the Song, and the poem's representations of love/rs using military imagery thematically connects the poem, providing the reader with a coherent and conceptually unified understanding of the Song. Additionally, this book investigates how the Song conceptualizes the female and the male, revealing their tight interconnection in the poem. By exploring one of the Song's most overlooked images, Conquered Conquerors provides fresh insights into the Song's figurative language and the conceptualization of gender in biblical literature"--Provided by publisher.

Love in the Bible --- Military art and science in the Bible --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Love in the Bible. --- Military art and science in the Bible. --- Amour dans la Bible. --- Art et science militaires dans la Bible. --- War in the Bible. --- Women in the Bible.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In continuity with the previous BETL volumes on biblical metaphors, namely Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible edited by Pierre Van Hecke (BETL 187; 2005), and Metaphors in the Psalms co-edited by Pierre Van Hecke and Antje Labahn (BETL 231; 2010), this third volume intends to contribute to and foster biblical research on metaphors by focusing on a phenomenon that has only received scant attention thus far, namely the relationship and interplay between different metaphors in the texts of the Hebrew Bible. Biblical metaphors very often come in chains, especially in poetry, in which individual metaphors may interact in a number of ways, e.g. they may modify, reverse, shift, and even contradict or reinforce the previous ones. Biblical metaphors often create families of metaphors that form a genuine repertoire of images to think and talk about a specific target domain from multiple viewpoints. The same source domain often inspires clusters of thoughts about a wide variety of realities. The same ?root metaphor? may run throughout an entire book or a section of a book, emerging on the surface level of the text in many ways and interacting with other metaphors along the text continuum. 'Networks of Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible' investigates biblical metaphors not as ?isolated events of discourse? but as constantly intertwining and shaping a network of multiple interactions between the figures.0.

Metaphor in the Bible. --- Bible. --- Bible --- 221.015 --- 82.085.41 --- Academic collection --- 82.085.41 Literaire metafoor. Beeldspraak --- Literaire metafoor. Beeldspraak --- 221.015 Oud Testament: literaire kritiek; authenticiteit; bronnenstudie; Formgeschiche; Traditionsgeschichte; Redaktionsgeschichte --- Oud Testament: literaire kritiek; authenticiteit; bronnenstudie; Formgeschiche; Traditionsgeschichte; Redaktionsgeschichte

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Whereas religion is often blamed to have an oppressing impact on the lives of sexual minorities, also other sociohistorical phenomena can have a harmful influence, while often being overlooked. The colonial past of a country can affect the contemporary social position of sexual minorities significantly. In a country like Pakistan, that is often being perceived as a country that is dictated by conservative religious rulings, colonial British legislations regarding hijras, a sexual minority that lives all around the Indian subcontinent, were until recently in force. Even though some of these legislations were recently annulled, the general view of Pakistani citizens is still heavily influenced by these rulings and the imperial gaze the British colonial occupiers and other European travellers tried to spread. The concept of the Imperial Gaze described by Ann E. Kaplan will be used to analyse different visual representations of hijras during the pre-colonial, colonial an post-colonial era in Pakistan. By doing so, it became clear that the colonial past is still very present in Pakistan, even though the statuses of hijras are improving on a legal and social level.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This thesis aims to examine how the Exodus motifs are used in Pss. 43; 44; 66; 68, which are not usually considered when investigating the presence of Exodus in the Psalter. Most scholars who study the use of Exodus in the Psalter devote their attention to the so-called "historical psalms" (78; 105; 106; 135; 136; 114; 137). This thesis employs a three-level analysis, namely, a syntactical, semantic, and pragmatic analysis. A syntactical analysis examines the word-order of the motif's syntactical constituents to determine if there is any peculiarity in its syntactical construction. Moreover, to determine the meaning evoked by the motif, I analyze its semantics using Conceptual Metaphor Theory, particularly Cognitive Blending Theory. Lastly, the pragmatic analysis focuses on the motif's communicative function within the composition. This thesis is divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 contains a general introduction, which includes a summary of the existing scholarship on the use of Exodus in the Psalter, a statement of the problem, a description of the materials to be considered, and a discussion of the methodology to be applied. In Chapter 2, the structure and theology of the Second Book of the Psalter, in which the following psalms to be examined are located, is presented to explain the reasoning behind the choice of materials in this study. These psalms are not chosen at random but follow the sequential progression in which they appear in the storyline of Book II. In Chapters 3-6, three levels of analysis are presented for the materials, Pss. 43; 44; 66; 68. Based on the overall analysis of the materials, the thesis concluded that contrary to the frequent disregard for only containing minor references, the Exodus motifs exercised an important role in all the psalms examined. To address the present circumstances of the psalmist and to illustrate their growth in understanding, the Exodus motifs have been reworked to reflect these changes. Pss. 43 and 44, both lament psalms, use the Exodus motifs to make a case against God and convey hope for deliverance. Conversely, Pss. 66 and 68, which are psalms of praise and thanksgiving, utilize the Exodus motifs to emphasize God's response and thus present him in a positive light. Accordingly, a development in the psalmist's use of Exodus motifs appears in the storyline of the Book II of the Psalter.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)