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Sep 5, 2024 · The Bible uses metaphors heavily, especially when talking about Christ. A metaphor claims that one thing is another thing. (This is a little different from a simile, which is an explicit comparison using the word like or as.) However, it’s understood that, when metaphor is employed, the two entities are not literally the same.
- J. Charteris-Black, Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis Jonathan Charteris-Black 2004
- 8.3.3 Light metaphors in the Old and New Testaments
- 8.3.4 Plant metaphors in the Old and New Testaments
- 8.4 Summary
they can only be expressed by referring to what is experienced in the physical world. The topics that are dealt with by religion – the origins of life, suffering, the struggle between good and evil, life and death etc. – are also ones for which judgement and evaluation are often necessary. In the previous chapters on political discourse, sports and...
Metaphors of light account for around 9 per cent of all metaphors in the sample. Two of the most productive metaphor keywords are light and dark; these account for over 50 per cent of metaphors in this domain suggesting that light and dark are prototype metaphors of Christianity. Metaphoric uses of light and dark occur with similar frequency and in...
Plant metaphors accounted for a little over 10 per cent of the total metaphors in the sample and are motivated by our knowledge of the processes and stages of natural growth. The beginnings of a natural process are with the seed taking root and shooting, before growing into plant or tree; it then produces branches, blossoms, buds and, eventu-ally, ...
In this chapter I have identified the major source domains for metaphor in the Bible; I have also proposed a set of conceptual metaphors that account for these linguistic metaphors and a set of conceptual keys that account for the conceptual metaphors. These are summarised in Table 8.6. Table 8.6 Summary of conceptual keys and conceptual metaphors ...
- Jonathan Charteris-Black
- 2004
The article outlines recent studies of metaphors in a range of fields before exploring met-aphorical uses of temple imagery within the Gospel of John, the Pauline letters, and Revelation. Temple metaphors employ the same image with multiple referents so that the study of meta-phors may also illustrate unity and diversity within the New Testament.
- John K McVay
the same family yet meaning something different in each word shown," in a book he owns. It is a massive volume of 1,007 pages plus xxviii preliminary and prefix pages, entitled Preaching from the Types and Metaphors of the Bible, by Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) of London, England. He described on the inside back flap of the dust cover of the book
McFague writes, Initially, when newly coined, [metaphor] seems inappropriate or unconventional; the response is often rejection. At a second stage, when it is a living metaphor, it has dual meaning—the literal and metaphorical—and is insightful. Finally, the metaphor becomes common place, either dead and/or literalized.
- Spencer Moffatt
That’s literal. But the meaning of experiences in this particular good person from Samaria speaks volumes. These two words together: Good Samaritan, communicate an idea in a context. They are a metaphor of the Christian’s social responsibility. The Bible reader becomes very familiar with a huge array of metaphors and allegories.
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substitution metaphors in scientific language. Yet even when a metaphor is defined in terms of the use of a word rather than in terms of the predication of a sentence it may function as more than a rhetorical decoration. C. S. Lewis proposed a useful distinction between a master’s metaphor and a pupil’s metaphor.10 In the
