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Author:   Johan de Joode
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   179
Weight:   0.616kg
ISBN:  

9789004388840

ISBN 10:   9004388842
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   20 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.1 Spatial Metaphors in the Prologue  1.2 Hypothesis and Background  1.3 Structure 2 Conceptual Metaphor Theory: A Pragmatic Synthesis  2.1 Metaphor: An Introduction  2.2 What is One ‘Thing’ and What is ‘Another’?  2.3 What is ‘Understanding’ One Thing in Terms of Another?  2.4 The Competitive Edge of Metaphors We Live By  2.5 Critiques of Metaphors We Live By  2.6 Conclusion 3 Spatial Metaphor in Language and Cognition  3.1 Definition  3.2 Spatial Semantics  3.3 Spatial Metaphors  3.4 Conclusion  3.5 Application 4 Boundaries and Containment  4.1 The Body is a Container  4.2 The Boundaries of the Body  4.3 The Boundaries around the Body  4.4 Boundaries in the Prologue  4.5 The Rationale behind These Metaphors  4.6 Conclusion 5 Place and Placelessness  5.1 Retribution is the Attribution of a Place  5.2 Rootedness and Rootlessness  5.3 Metaphorical Objects and their Place  5.4 Conclusion 6 Direction and Distance  6.1 Ethics is a Journey  6.2 Ethics is Distance  6.3 Ill-being is a Moving Object  6.4 Conclusion 7 Job’s Post-Traumatic Spatial Metaphors as Theological Challenges  7.1 Spatial Metaphors in the Prologue and Dialogue  7.2 Job’s Lack of Control and God’s Agency  7.3 Spatial Causality as a Challenge to Retribution Theology  7.4 Conclusion 8 Spatial Configurations in the Divine Speech  8.1 Interpreting the Divine Speech  8.2 An Alternative Geography  8.3 A Different Landscape  8.4 Conclusion 9 Conclusion Bibliography Indexes

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... De Joode's book makes a powerful contribution to the use of metaphor theory in biblical studies as well as to the exegesis of Job ... . Bryan Bibb, Furman University

""... De Joode’s book makes a powerful contribution to the use of metaphor theory in biblical studies as well as to the exegesis of Job ..."". Bryan Bibb, Furman University

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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

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