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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453790603321

Autore

DesCamp Mary Therese

Titolo

Metaphor and ideology [[electronic resource] ] : liber antiquitatum biblicarum and literary methods through a cognitive lens / / by Mary Therese DesCamp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007

ISBN

1-281-93651-0

9786611936518

90-474-2186-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Collana

Biblical interpretation series, , 0928-0731 ; ; v. 87

Disciplina

229/.911

Soggetti

Cognitive grammar

Narration in the Bible

Women in the Bible

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-356) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Materials -- Chapter One. Pseudo Philo’s Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum -- Chapter Two. Conceptual Blending And Metaphor Theory -- Chapter Three. Robert Alter’s Narrative Theory Through A Cognitive Lens -- Chapter Four. Perelman And Olbrechts-Tyteca’s \'New\' Rhetoric Through A Cognitive Lens -- Chapter Five. Rewritten Bible As Conceptual Blend: Establishing Authority In Pseudo-Philo -- Chapter Six. Biblical Insertions: Time Out Of Joint -- Chapter Seven. Error Or Intention? Mixed-Up Metaphors -- Chapter Eight. Quotations, Character, And Authority -- Chapter Nine. Humility And Leadership -- Chapter Ten. Women In Lab: Mother Knows Best -- Chapter Eleven. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index Of Subject -- Index Of Passages From Pseudo-Philo -- Index Of Passages From Hebrew Bible -- Index Of Character From Pseudo-Philo.

Sommario/riassunto

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.