'People are Plants'- a conceptual metaphor in the Hebrew Bible
Agriculture had a profound impact on the socio-economic structure of ancient Israel. Moreover, the great religious festivals were organised around an agrarian calendar. The importance of agriculture is underscored by the multiple references to plants in the Hebrew Bible. The diverse flora provided t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2006
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2006, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 573-583 |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | Agriculture had a profound impact on the socio-economic structure of ancient Israel. Moreover, the great religious festivals were organised around an agrarian calendar. The importance of agriculture is underscored by the multiple references to plants in the Hebrew Bible. The diverse flora provided the biblical Hebrew authors with a repository of metaphors to describe the divine-human relationship and to portray the Israelites in different historical situations. Given the prevalence of plant imagery in the Hebrew Bible, this contribution endeavours to analyse the conceptual metaphor PEOPLE ARE PLANTS from a cognitive linguistic perspective. The notions of conceptual mapping and metaphorical instantiations are discussed in order to elucidate the aforementioned metaphor. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC85793 |