Metaphor and ideology : liber antiquitatum biblicarum and literary methods through a cognitive lens

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Metaphor and ideology : liber antiquitatum biblicarum and literary methods through a cognitive lens

Title remainder

liber antiquitatum biblicarum and literary methods through a cognitive lens

Statement of responsibility

by Mary Therese DesCamp

Creator

• DesCamp, Mary Therese

Subject

• Cognitive grammar
• Narration in the Bible
• Pseudo-Philo
• Women in the Bible
• Bible, Old Testament -- History of Biblical events

Language

eng

Summary

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 dissona

Member of

• Biblical interpretation series, 87
• Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

229/.911

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

P165

LC item number

.D47 2007eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography