The Greeley Tribune

Tracey D. Lawrence: Metaphor is a powerful tool in Old Testament

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Nature

Ancient Hebrew Social Life and Custom as indicated in Law, Narrative and Metaphor

EVERY period has its special interests and similarly the sciences their special fashions. During the last century, interest in the Old Testament was predominantly theological arid historical, from the ...
Christianity Today

The Evolution of Sin

Old Testament professor Gary Anderson explains how sin came to be seen as a debt rather than a weight—and how that shaped Christianity. In the version of the Lord’s Prayer that appears in the Gospel ...
JSTOR Daily

Mapping the Literary to the Literal Image: A Comparison Between Sub-metaphors of the Heavenly Warrior Metaphor in the Hebrew Psalter and Iconographic Elements of the Storm- and ...

In a paper read at the International SBL meetings in Vienna, 2007, I discussed the relationship between the literary and literal image. Taking metaphor as the most prominent trope of biblical imagery, ...
University of Dayton

UD Hebrew Bible scholar to release award-winning book on gender in the Old Testament

Esther Brownsmith became immersed in the Bible at a young age, attending biblical studies conventions with her parents, who created Accordance Bible study software. Brownsmith, assistant professor of ...