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Metaphor, canon, and community : Jewish, Christian, and Islamic approaches
- Title
- Metaphor, canon, and community : Jewish, Christian, and Islamic approaches / Ralph Bisschops and James Francis, eds.
- Publication
- Bern ; New York : P. Lang, ©1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 307 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Religions and discourse ; v. 1
- Uniform Title
- Religions and discourse ; v. 1.
- Subject
- Bibel
- Metaphor > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Metaphor > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Metaphor > Religious aspects > Islam
- 11.07 relations between religions
- 17.84 language and style in literature
- Metaphor > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Metaphor > Religious aspects > Islam
- Metaphor > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Christentum
- Islam
- Judentum
- Metapher
- Religiöse Sprache
- Metaforen
- Canon
- Geloofsgemeenschappen
- Jodendom
- Christendom
- Islam
- Métaphore > Aspect religieux > Christianisme
- Métaphore > Aspect religieux > Judaïsme
- Métaphore > Aspect religieux > Islam
- Métaphore dans la Bible
- Hombergen <1997>
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Section I. Metaphors and religious creativity. God as worker-- a metaphor from daily life in biblical perspective / James Francis -- In the cleft of a rock-- metaphors of divine concealment and disclosure in the Hebrew Bible / Robert L. Platzner -- Metaphors of universal love (Mt. 5:13a, 14a) / Martin Pöttner -- Cultura animi, cultura dei-- worship as agriculture in early Christianity / Francesca Rigotti -- The role of religious symbols and metaphors in relation to positive mental health-- with a reference to Islamic mysticism (Sufism) / Recep Yaparael -- Section II. The use of metaphors in sacred rhetorics. "You yourselves are our letter"--2Cor 3 as an example for the usage of metaphor in Paul / Bernd Kuschnerus -- Healing the sick as an exercise in religious metaphor / Lawrence A. Hoffman -- Diagnostic criteria for an assessment of God-images in pastoral counselling / Daniel J. Louw -- Metaphorical expressions in the Prophet Muhammad's Hadith / Recai Dogan -- What did Jesus mean?-- The Lord's Prayer translated into universal human concepts / Anna Wierzbicka.
- Section III. Principles of interpretation. The metaphorical mapping of God in the Hebrew Bible / Marv Z. Brettler -- Oppressive metaphor and the liberating literal sense / Berel Dov Lerner -- Al-Ghazali on metaphorical interpretation / Mehmet S. Aydin -- Sacramental semeiosis-- fragmentary reflection in connection with a semiotic reconstruction of the debate between Luther and Zwingli over the Lord's Supper / Frank Miege -- Metaphor as the internalisation of a ritual-- with a case study on Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860) / Ralph Bisschops.
- ISBN
- 0820442348
- 9780820442341
- 3906762408
- 9783906762401
- LCCN
- 99015409
- OCLC
- ocm41231221
- 41231221
- SCSB-1272978
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library