Language:
English
Year of publication:
2017
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
Angaben zur Quelle:
17 (2017) 18 pp.
Keywords:
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Cities and towns in the Bible
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Metonyms
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Metaphor in the Bible
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Personification in the Bible
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Nineveh (Extinct city)
Abstract:
Research on cities in the Hebrew Bible shows that urban spaces are often personified. This article argues that in the case of Nahum's Nineveh this personification is part of a conceptual metaphor, in which the city is depicted as a body. The same metaphor underlies other comparative devices in the text, which similarly share a corporeal focus. Together, these devices tell the story of a weakening city body, in a way that is both cognitively accessible as well as narratologically and communicatively efficient.
DOI:
10.5508/jhs.2017.v17.a1
URL:
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