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1. link.springer.com › content › pdfMetaphor in the Bible - Springer

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   Metaphor interpretation has, at times, been central in causing religious schism; a key issue in the division between Lutheranism and Catholicism that initiated the Reformation was transubstantiation.

   • Author: Jonathan Charteris-Black

   • Publish Year: 2004

2. www.bibles.net › metaphors-for-the-church-in-the-bibleMetaphors for the Church in the Bible and Why They're ...

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   Paul talks about being baptized into a body, as if one could be immersed into a torso. Peter talks about Christians as “living stones,” itself a mixed metaphor, and then he says that these “living stones are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood” (1 Peter 2:5 ESV).

3. www.davelefevre.website › teaching › OtherTHE METAPHORS OF PAUL’S WRITINGS

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   Many of his metaphors involved things beyond the Jewish world of the Old Testament because he was speaking to people influenced by and living in Roman and Greek culture. When we have a greater understanding of this cultural context, we can better understand and apply Paul’s writings to ourselves today.

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4. www.academia.edu › 42628891 › Biblical_Metaphors_for(PDF) Biblical Metaphors for the Church | John K McVay ...

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   The purpose is to delve into Christian texts and uncover metaphors that form Christianity’s “vision of reality,” a la Tracy, or, in the spirit of Lakoff and Johnson, the “metaphors Christians worship by.”

   • Author: John K McVay

5. www.gotquestions.org › metaphor-in-the-BibleWhat are some examples of metaphor in the Bible?

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   Sep 5, 2024 · The Bible uses metaphor to help us make connections that allow us to understand deeper truths. Jesus often used metaphors to make statements about Himself, as in the examples below: Jesus said, “I am the bread of life” (John 6:35).

6. www.thebibleway.net › English › 2 colimn PDFDEFINING TYPES AND METAPHORS Cecil N. Wright - TheBibleWay.net

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   Open Scripture Metaphors, together with Types of the Old Testament, prefixed by "Articles to prove the Divine Authority of the Holy Bible." But under its present title it was copyrighted and republished by Kregel Publishing of Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A., in 1972 and reprinted in 1975, 1976, 1978, and 1980,

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   Why did Paul use metaphors in the Old Testament?

   • Many of his metaphors involved things beyond the Jewish world of the Old Testament because he was speaking to people influenced by and living in Roman and Greek culture. When we have a greater understanding of this cultural context, we can better understand and apply Paul’s writings to ourselves today.

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   What is a metaphor in the New Testament?

   • The New Testament epistolary writers also used metaphor. Paul likens the Christian life to running a race (Galatians 5:7; 1 Corinthians 9:24) and uses wages as a metaphor for the consequences of sin (Romans 6:23). He calls the church the body of Christ (e.g., 1 Corinthians 12:27).

   What are some examples of metaphor in the Bible?

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   Do biblical texts rely on metaphors?

   • I have illustrated how these conceptual keys account for the coherence of biblical texts that rely on metaphor and argued that metaphors are vital to persuasive communication of the Christian message.

   Metaphor in the Bible - Springer

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   Why is metaphor important in the Bible?

   • The words attributed to Jesus demonstrate that metaphor is central to religious thought and is a normal way of expressing spiritual notions. In this chapter I undertake a metaphor analysis of the metaphors in both Testaments of the Bible.

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   What is a metaphor based on?

   • Here it the behaviour of the animal that is the basis for the metaphor and this reflects in the use of verbs which imply an animal subject – as opposed to nouns from the lexical field of animals. These metaphors typically evaluate behaviour negatively as aggressive or rapacious, as in the following.

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   Are the metaphors of darkness and light evenly distributed throughout the Bible?

   • It is interesting to note that the metaphors of darkness and light are not evenly distributed throughout the Bible but tend to occur in clusters; we can see that this is the case if we analyse the occurrence of these metaphors in the gospels, as shown in Table 8.2.

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8. www.jstor.org › stable › 43894551Interpreting Biblical Metaphors: Introducing the Invariance ...

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   metaphor's source domain (the metaphorical elements) must correspond to the struc-ture of logical relationships in the target domain (the literal elements). An extended analysis of the partridge metaphor in the riddle-based proverb of Jer 17:11 demonstrates how the Invariance Principle can be used to evaluate previous interpretations and to