Metaphor in the Old Testament

Abstract

This chapter complements the preceding one and explores further the research questions that were presented in section 8.2 but with a particular focus on the lexical fields that served as source domains for metaphors that occurred predominantly (or exclusively) in the Old Testament. This reveals how comparing metaphors in two different parts of a text may help us to understand fundamental differences between these parts at the level of cognitive and pragmatic motivation of metaphor. If metaphor contributes to textual coherence then we may expect that differences in text structure reflect in metaphor choice.