Divine metaphors in Psalm 35 explored from a cognitive anthropological perspective
The competent reader will agree that divine metaphors abound in the Psalms of lamentation. These portrayals of Yahweh are closely linked with the everyday cultural experience of the supplicant and the cognitive organisation thereof. Previous studies, however, neglected the (cognitive) factors that g...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2005
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2005, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 9-21 |
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| Summary: | The competent reader will agree that divine metaphors abound in the Psalms of lamentation. These portrayals of Yahweh are closely linked with the everyday cultural experience of the supplicant and the cognitive organisation thereof. Previous studies, however, neglected the (cognitive) factors that give rise to the various depictions of the deity in the Psalms of lamentation. It is argued that the information in these poems is a cognitive and cultural representation of the plaintiff's world. This article purports to elucidate the relation between the cultural experiences of the poet, the cognitive construing of reality and the metaphoric utterances in Psalm 35. This paper also analyses the divine representation from a literary and cognitive perspective. The aim will be to demonstrate that the theoretical assumptions of cognitive anthropology can indeed shed new light on certain aspects of Psalm 35 that, hitherto, have remained obscured. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC85677 |