Cognitive linguistic explorations in biblical studies /
edited by Bonnie Howe and Joel B. Green.
- vi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Motivating biblical metaphors for God: refining the cognitive model / Looking beyond the tree in Jeremiah 17:5-8 / "Don't think of a voice!": divine silence, metaphor, and mental spaces in selected psalms of lament / The fruit of the tree of life: ritual interpretation of the crucifixion in the Gospel of Philip / Pauline rhetorical invention: seeing 1 Corinthians 6:12-7:7 through conceptual integration theory / Sapiential synesthesia: the conceptual blending of light and word in Ben Sira's Wisdom instruction / The cognitive structures in Galatians 1:4 / Who is in charge? Mental space analysis and visualization in a textual study, applied to 1 Samuel 28:3-25 / Cognitive grammar at work in Sodom and Gomorrah / 1 John 1:5-10: conditionals and performativity / Translating "thinking" and "believing" in the Bible: how cognitive linguistic analysis shows increasing subjectivity in translations / Eve Sweetser and Mary Therese DesCamp -- S.J. Robinette -- Willam A. Andrews Jr. -- Hugo Lundhaug -- Robert H. von Thaden Jr. -- Greg Schmidt goering -- Jesper Tan Nielsen -- Miranda Vroon-van Vugt -- Ellen van Wolde -- David Parris -- José Sanders.
Writing, reading, and interpretation are acts of human minds, requiring complex cognition at every point. A relatively new field of studies, cognitive linguistics, focuses on how language and cognition are interconnected: Linguistic structures both shape cognitive patterns and are shaped by them. The Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation section of the Society of Biblical Literature gathers scholars interested in applying cognitive linguistics to biblical studies, focusing on how language makes meaning, how texts evoke authority, and how contemporary readers interact with ancient texts. This collection of essays represents first fruits from the first six years (2006–2012) of that effort, drawing on cognitive metaphor study, mental spaces and conceptual blending, narrative theory, and cognitive grammar. Contributors include Eve Sweetser, Ellen van Wolde, Hugo Lundhaug and Jesper T. Nielsen.