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Subject(s)

• God—Motherhood—Biblical teaching [Browse]
• God—Fatherhood—Biblical teaching [Browse]
• Metaphor [Browse]
• Metaphor in the Bible [Browse]
• Bible O.T. Isaiah XLII-L—Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]

Series

• Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 398. [More in this series]
• Gender, culture, theory ; 13. [More in this series]
• Gender, culture, theory ; 13 [More in this series]

Summary note

While most treatments of biblical metaphor examine individual metaphors in isolation, Sarah J. Dille presents a model for interpretation based on their interaction with one another. Using Lakoff and Johnson's category of "metaphoric coherence", she argues that when nonconsistent or contradictory metaphors appear together in a literary unit, the areas of overlap (coherence) are highlighted in each. Using the images of father and mother in Deutero-Isaiah as a starting point, she explores how these images interact with others: for example, the divine warrior, the redeeming kinsman, the artisan of

Notes

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Emory University).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and indexes.

Language note

English

Contents

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 UNDERSTANDING METAPHOR; Chapter 2 KINSHIP AND BIRTH IN DEUTERO-ISAIAH AND ANCIENT ISRAEL; Chapter 3 LIKE A WOMAN IN LABOR: ISAIAH 42.8-17; Chapter 4 YHWH'S SONS AND DAUGHTERS: ISAIAH 43.1-7; Chapter 5 THE DIVINE ARTISAN: ISAIAH 45.9-13; Chapter 6 CAN A MOTHER FORGET? ISAIAH 49.13-23; Chapter 7 DIVINE HUSBAND AND FATHER: ISAIAH 50.1-3; Chapter 8 CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

ISBN

• 1-281-80320-0
• 9786611803209
• 0-8264-6969-8

OCLC

• 285597603
• 893334154

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