Metaphor and Ideology: Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum and Literary Methods Through a Cognitive Lens (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004161795)

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.

Author: Mary Therese Descamp
ISBN-10: 9004161791
ISBN-13: 9789004161795
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/21/2007
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.50w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 228