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Metaphor and Ideology: Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum and Literary Methods Through a Cognitive Lens

by Mary Therese Descamp

  • Hardback
  • 368 pages
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 16.6 x 24.4 x 2.8 cm

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For students of biblical texts and theology

Unpacks how metaphors shape authority in literature

Enhance your ability to interpret ancient narratives

An innovative linguistic study on the role and authority of women in the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum.

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Contemporary scholars have sharply disagreed over the importance of the loquacious women of Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum. Using the methods of contemporary Cognitive Linguistics, Ideology and Metaphor develops a systematic, replicable reading of the text and its characters, showing how Pseudo-Philo uses these women's stories to articulate the text's theology and ideology. The analysis also explores how the author redefines the term mother in order to sanction the female authority to interpret and instruct. The conceptual blends that compose the text's distinctive and sometimes dissonant metaphors are analyzed in detail. This monograph also explores how a re-written Bible establishes its authority and awards authority to specific characters and how rhetorical and narrative methodologies fit within cognitive linguistics.

  • Title

    Metaphor and Ideology: Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum and Literary Methods Through a Cognitive Lens

  • Author

    Mary Therese Descamp

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    September 2007

  • Weight

    840g

  • Page Count

    368

  • Dimensions

    16.6 x 24.4 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004161795

  • ISBN-10

    9004161791

  • Eden Code

    4708692