Metaphor Competition in the Book of Job

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-525-53135-8
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Buch, Englisch, Band Band 026, 256 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Reihe: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements (JAJ.S)

Within the book of Job, the interlocutors (Job, the friends, and Yahweh) seem to largely ignore one another's arguments.
This observation leads some to propose that the dialogue lacks conceptual coherence. Lance Hawley argues that the interlocutors tangentially and sometimes overtly attend to previously stated points of view and attempt to persuade their counterparts through the employment of metaphor.
Hawley uses the theoretical approach of Conceptual Metaphor Theory to trace the concepts of speech and animals throughout the dialogue. Beyond explaining the individual metaphors in particular texts, he shows how speech metaphors compete with one another, most perceptibly in the expressions of job's words are wind. With regard to animal metaphors, coherence is especially perceptible in the job is a predatory animal metaphor. In these expressions, the dialogue demonstrates intentional picking-up on previously stated arguments.
Hawley argues that the animal images in the divine speeches are not metaphorical, in spite of recent scholarly interpretation that reads them as such. Rather, Yahweh appears as a sage to question the negative status of wild animals that Job and his friends assume in their significations of people are animals. This is especially apparent in Yahweh's strophes on the lion and the wild donkey, both of which appear multiple times in the metaphorical expressions of Job and his friends.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawley, Lance R.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lange, Armin

Noam, Vered

Levinson, Bernard M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Noam, Vered
Vered Noam, Ph.D., ist Professor für Jewish Philosophy and Talmud und Chair der Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology an der Universität Tel-Aviv.

Lange, Armin
Dr. theol. Armin Lange ist Professor für das Judentum des zweiten Tempels und Vorstand des Instituts für Judaistik der Universität Wien. In seinen Lehrveranstaltungen bestreitet er die Zeit von den Anfängen Israels und Judas bis zum zweiten jüdischen Krieg. In seiner Forschung spezialisiert er sich auf die weisheitliche und prophetische Literatur Israels, die Textfunde vom Toten Meer sowie die Text- und Kanongeschichte der Hebräischen Bibel. Er ist Mitglied des internationalen Herausgeberteams der Textfunde vom Toten Meer.

Hawley, Lance R.
Dr. Lance R. Hawley is Assistant Professor at Harding School of Theology in Memphis,Tennessee, USA.

Levinson, Bernard M.
Bernard M. Levinson ist Professor für Klassische Altertumswissenschaft sowie für Rechtswissenschaften an der Universität von Minnesota und ist Inhaber des Berman Family Lehrstuhls für Judaistik und Hebräisch.

Bernard M. Levinson serves as Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible. His research focuses on biblical and cuneiform law, textual reinterpretation in the Second Temple period, and the relation of the Bible to Western intellectual history. 

http://levinson.umn.edu/