Can I read Moving Beyond Symbol and Myth: Understanding the Kingship of God of the Hebrew Bible Through Metaphor (Studies in Biblical Literature) on EtoBox?

Moving Beyond Symbol and Myth: Understanding the Kingship of God of the Hebrew Bible Through Metaphor (Studies in Biblical Literature) by Anne Moore is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Moving Beyond Symbol and Myth: Understanding the Kingship of God of the Hebrew Bible Through Metaphor (Studies in Biblical Literature) about?

For hundreds of years, scholars have debated the meaning of Jesus’ central theological term, the ‘kingdom of God’. Most of the argument has focused on its assumed eschatological connotations and Jesus’ adherence or deviation from these ideas. Within the North American context, the debate is dominated by the work of Norman Perrin, whose classification of the kingdom of God as a myth-evoking symbol remains one of the fundamental assumptions of scholarship. According to Perrin, Jesus’ understanding of the kingdom of God is founded upon the myth of God acting as king on behalf of Israel as described in the Hebrew Bible. Moving Beyond Symbol and Myth challenges Perrin’s classification, and advocates the reclassification of the kingdom of God as metaphor. Drawing upon insights from the cognitive theory of metaphor, this study examines all the occurrences of the ‘God is king’ metaphor within the literary context of the Hebrew Bible. Based on this review, it is proposed that the ‘God is king’ metaphor functions as a true metaphor with a range of expressions and meanings. It is employed within a variety of texts and conveys images of God as the covenantal sovereign of Israel; God as the ete

Who reads Moving Beyond Symbol and Myth: Understanding the Kingship of God of the Hebrew Bible Through Metaphor (Studies in Biblical Literature)?

Author

Anne Moore

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820486611

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Bible