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Author DesCamp, Mary Therese

Title Metaphor and ideology : liber antiquitatum biblicarum and literary methods through a cognitive lens / by Mary Therese DesCamp
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages) : illustrations
Series Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; v. 87
Biblical interpretation series ; v. 87.
Contents Introduction; PART ONE An Introduction to the Text and Cognitive Methods; Chapter One Pseudo Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum; Chapter Two Conceptual Blending and Metaphor Theory; PART TWO Narrative and Rhetorical Methods; Chapter Three Robert Alter's Narrative Theory Through A Cognitive Lens; Chapter Four Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's "New" Rhetoric Through A Cognitive Lens; PART THREE Analyzing LIBER ANTIQUITATUM BIBLICARUM with Cognitive Methods; Chapter Five Rewritten Bible as Conceptual Blend: Establishing Authority in Pseudo-Philo
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-356) and indexes
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Subject Pseudo-Philo. Liber antiquitatum biblicarum.
SUBJECT Philo Alexandrinus v25-40 Antiquitates biblicae gnd
Philo <Alexandrinus> swd
Bible. Old Testament -- History of Biblical events
Bible. Old Testament fast
Liber antiquitatum biblicarum (Pseudo-Philo) fast
Antiquitates biblicae. swd
Subject Cognitive grammar.
Narration in the Bible.
Women in the Bible.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies.
Cognitive grammar
History of Biblical events
Narration in the Bible
Women in the Bible
Erzähltheorie
Rhetorik
Metapher
Ideologie
Antiquitates Biblicae (Pseudo-Philo)
Cognitieve linguïstiek.
Metaforen.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047421863
9047421868
1281936510
9781281936516
9786611936518
6611936513