The Complete Biblical Metaphor Annotated Bibliography

Fauconnier, Gilles, and Mark Turner. The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities. New York: Basic, 2002. Cite

Fogelin, Robert J. Figuratively Speaking. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986. Cite

Kittay, Eva Feder. Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987. Cite

Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980. Cite

Lakoff, George, and Mark Turner. More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1989. Cite

Ortony, Andrew, ed. Metaphor and Thought. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Cite

Ricoeur, Paul. The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language. Translated by Robert Czerny. London: Routledge & Kegen Paul, 1978. Cite

Black, Max. “Metaphor.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 55 (1954 1955): 273–94. Cite

Grady, Joseph E., Todd Oakley, and Seana Coulson. “Blending and Metaphor.” In Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics, edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Gerard J. Steen, 101–24. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 175. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999. Cite

Aaron, David H. Biblical Ambiguities: Metaphor, Semantics and Divine Imagery. Reference Library of Ancient Judaism 4. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Cite

Bisschops, Ralph, and James Francis, eds. Metaphor, Canon, and Community: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Approaches. Religions and Discourse 1. New York: P. Lang, 1999. Cite

Cohen, Mordechai Z. Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor: From Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides to David Kimhi. Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéval 26. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Cite

Feyaerts, Kurt, ed. The Bible through Metaphor and Translation: A Cognitive Semantic Perspective. Religions and Discourse 15. New York: P. Lang, 2003. Cite

Macky, Peter. The Centrality of Metaphors to Biblical Thought: A Method for Interpreting the Bible. Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity 19. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen, 1990. Cite

Soskice, Janet Martin. Metaphor and Religious Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Cite

Weiss, Andrea. Figurative Language in Biblical Prose Narrative: Metaphor in the Book of Samuel. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Cite

Berlin, Adele. “On Reading Biblical Poetry: The Role of Metaphor.” In Congress Volume: Cambridge 1995, edited by J. A. Emerton, 25–36. VTSup 66. Leiden: Brill, 1997. Cite

Dahood, Mitchell. “Congruity of Metaphors.” In Hebräische Wortforschung: Festschrift Zum 80. Geburtstag von Walter Baumgartner, edited by Benedikt Hartmann, 40–49. VTSup 16. Leiden: Brill, 1967. Cite

Korpel, Marjo, and Johannes de Moor. “2.2: The Human Nature of Religious Language.” In The Silent God, 59–70. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Cite

Kotzé, Zacharias. “A Cognitive Linguistic Methodology for the Study of Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible.” JNSL 31, no. 1 (2005): 107–17. Cite

Labahn, Antje. “Metaphor and Intertextuality: ‘Daughter of Zion’ as a Test Case.  Response to Kirsten Nielsen ‘From Oracles to Canon.’” SJOT 17 (2003): 49–67. Cite

McElhanon, Kenneth. “From Simple Metaphors to Conceptual Blending: The Mapping of Analogical Concepts and the Praxis of Translation.” Journal of Translation 2 (2006): 31–81. Cite

Nielsen, Kirsten. “‘From Oracles to Canon’—and the Role of Metaphor.” SJOT 17 (2003): 22–33. Cite

Basson, Alec. Divine Metaphors in Selected Hebrew Psalms of Lamentation. FAT 2 15. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006. Cite

Del Brassey, Paul. Metaphor and the Incomparable God in Isaiah 40–55: A Thesis. BIBAL Dissertation Series 9. North Richland Hills, TX: BIBAL, 1997. Cite

Dille, Sarah J. Mixing Metaphors: God as Mother and Father in Deutero-Isaiah. JSOTSup 398. London: T&T Clark, 2004. Cite

Eidevall, Göran. Grapes in the Desert: Metaphors, Models and Themes in Hosea 4–14. ConBOT 43. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1996. Cite

Eidevall, Göran. Prophecy and Propaganda: Images of Enemies in the Book of Isaiah. ConBOT 56. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009. Cite

Hill, John. Friend or Foe? The Figure of Babylon in the Book of Jeremiah MT. BibInt 40. Leiden: Brill, 1999. Cite

Hong, Seong-Hyuk. The Metaphor of Illness and Healing in Hosea and Its Significance in the Socio-Economic Context of Eighth-Century Israel and Judah. StBibLit 95. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. Cite

Jindo, Job Y. Biblical Metaphor Reconsidered: A Cognitive Approach to Poetic Prophecy in Jeremiah 1–24. HSM 64. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2010. Cite

Kamionkowski, S. Tamar. Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: A Study on the Book of Ezekiel. JSOTSup 368. London: Sheffield Academic, 2003. Cite

Kelle, Brad E. Hosea 2: Metaphor and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective. AcBib 20. Atlanta: SBL, 2005. Cite

Lund, Oystein. Way Metaphors and Way Topics in Isaiah 40–55. FAT 2 28. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007. Cite

Munro, Jill M. Spikenard and Saffron: A Study in the Poetic Language of the Song of Songs. JSOTSup 203. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1995. Cite

Nielsen, Kirsten. There Is Hope for a Tree: The Tree as Metaphor in Isaiah. JSOTSup 65. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1989. Cite

Perdue, Leo G. Wisdom in Revolt: Metaphorical Theology in the Book of Job. BLS 29. Decatur, GA: Almond, 1991. Cite

Shields, Mary E. Circumscribing the Prostitute: The Rhetorics of Intertextuality, Metaphor and Gender in Jeremiah 3.1–4.4. JSOTSup 387. London: T&T Clark International, 2004. Cite

Van Hecke, Pierre, and Antje Labahn, eds. Metaphors in the Psalms. BETL 231. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2010. Cite

Adams, Karin. “Metaphor and Dissonance: A Reinterpretation of Hosea 4:13–14.” JBL 127 (2008): 291–305. Cite

Becking, Bob. “Sour Fruit and Blunt Teeth: The Metaphorical Meaning of the Māšāl in Jeremiah 31,29.” SJOT 17 (2003): 7–21. Cite

Blair, Merryl. “‘God Is an Earthquake’: Destabilizing Metaphor in Hosea 11.” ABR 55 (2007): 1–12. Cite

Brown, William P. “The Didactic Power of Metaphor in the Aphoristic Sayings of Proverbs.” JSOT 29 (2004): 133–54. Cite

Chan, Michael Jay. “Isaiah 65–66 and the Genesis of Reorienting Speech.” CBQ 72 (2010): 445–63. Cite

Diamond, A. R. Pete. “Deceiving Hope: The Ironies of Metaphorical Beauty and Ideological Terror in Jeremiah.” SJOT 17 (2003): 34–48. Cite

Doyle, Brian. “Howling Like Dogs: Metaphorical Language in Psalm LIX.” VT 54 (2004): 61–82. Cite

Grohmann, Marianne. “Ambivalent Images of Birth in Psalm VII 15.” VT 55 (0 439AD): 2005. Cite

Heim, Knut. “A Closer Look at the Pig in Proverbs Xi 22.” VT 58 (2008): 13–27. Cite

Irwin, Brian. “Amos 4:1 and the Cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria: A Reappraisal.” CBQ 74 (2012): 231–46. Cite

Labahn, Antje. “Fire from Above: Metaphors and Images of God’s Actions in Lamentations 2.1–9.” JSOT 31 (2006): 239–56. Cite

Mein, Andrew. “Profitable and Unprofitable Shepherds: Economic and Theological Perspectives on Ezekiel 34.” JSOT 31 (2007): 493–504. Cite

Miglio, Adam. “Ordeal, Infidelity, and Prophetic Irony in Jeremiah 2,1–9.” SJOT 24 (2010): 222–34. Cite

Nielsen, Kirsten. “The Variety of Metaphors about God in the Psalter: Deconstruction and Reconstruction?” SJOT 16 (2002): 151–59. Cite

Nwaoru, Emmanuel O. “A Fresh Look at Amos 4:1–3 and Its Imagery.” VT 59 (2009): 460–74. Cite

Schöpflin, Karin. “The Composition of Metaphorical Oracles within the Book of Ezekiel.” VT 55 (2005): 101–20. Cite

Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia. “The Watchman Metaphor in Isaiah LVI–LXVI.” VT 55 (2005): 378–400. Cite

Van Hecke, Pierre J. P. “Metaphorical Shifts in the Oracle against Babylon (Jeremiah 50–51).” SJOT 17 (2003): 68–88. Cite

Abma, Richtsje. Bonds of Love: Methodic Studies of Prophetic Texts with Marriage Imagery (Isaiah 50:1–3 and 54:1–10, Hosea 1–3, Jeremiah 2–3). SSN 40. Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1999. Cite

Anderson, Gary A. Sin: A History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. Cite

Baumann, Gerlinde. Love and Violence: Marriage as Metaphor for the Relationship Between YHWH and Israel in the Prophetic Books. Translated by Linda M. Maloney. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2003. Cite

Bergmann, Claudia D. Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis: Evidence from the Ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1–18. BZAW 382. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. Cite

Brettler, Marc Zvi. God Is King: Understanding an Israelite Metaphor. JSOTSup 76. Sheffield: JSOT, 1989. Cite

Camp, Claudia V., and Carole R. Fontaine, eds. Women, War and Metaphor: Language and Society in the Study of the Hebrew Bible. Semeia 61. Atlanta: Scholars, 1993. Cite

Chapman, Cynthia. The Gendered Language of Warfare in the Israelite-Assyrian Encounter. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2004. Cite

Forti, Tova. Animal Imagery in the Book of Proverbs. VTSup 118. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Cite

Halvorson-Taylor, Martien A. Enduring Exile: The Metaphorization of Exile in the Hebrew Bible. VTSup 141. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Cite

Hayes, Katherine Murphey. “The Earth Mourns”: Prophetic Metaphor and Oral Aesthetic. AcBib 8. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Cite

Klingbeil, Martin. Yahweh Fighting from Heaven: God as Warrior and as God of Heaven in the Hebrew Psalter and Ancient Near Eastern Iconography. OBO 169. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999. Cite

Korpel, Marjo. A Rift in the Clouds: Ugaritic and Hebrew Descriptions of the Divine. Münster: Ugarit, 1990. Cite

Løland, Hanne. Silent or Salient Gender? The Interpretation of Gendered God-Language in the Hebrew Bible, Exemplified in Isaiah 42, 46, and 49. FAT 2 32. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008. Cite

Moore, Anne. Moving Beyond Symbol and Myth: Understanding the Kingship of God of the Hebrew Bible through Metaphor. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. Cite

Moughtin-Mumby, Sharon. Sexual and Marital Metaphors in Hosea, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel. Oxford Theological Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Cite

Strawn, Brent A. What Is Stronger than a Lion?  Leonine Image and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. OBO 212. Freiburg: Herder, 2005. Cite

Van Hecke, Pierre, ed. Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible. BETL 187. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2005. Cite

Weems, Renita J. Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995. Cite

Basson, Alec. “A Few Metaphorical Source Domains for Emotions in the Old Testament.” Scriptura 100 (2009): 121–28. Cite

Ben Zvi, Ehud. “Observations on the Marital Metaphor of YHWH and Israel in Its Ancient Israelite Context: General Considerations and Particular Images in Hosea 1.2.” JSOT 28 (2004): 363–84. Cite

Bergmann, Claudia. “We Have Seen the Enemy, and He Is Only a ‘She’: The Portrayal of Warriors as Women.” CBQ 69 (2007): 651–72. Cite

Berman, Joshua. “The ‘Sword of Mouths’ (Jud. III 16; Ps. CXLIX 6; Prov. V 4): A Metaphor and Its Ancient Near Eastern Context.” VT 52 (2002): 291–303. Cite

Bridge, Edward J. “Loyalty, Dependency and Status with YHWH: The Use of ‘bd in the Psalms.” VT 59 (2009): 360–78. Cite

Chan, Michael Jay. “Cyrus, Yhwh’s Bird of Prey (Isa. 46.11): Echoes of an Ancient Near Eastern Metaphor.” JSOT 35 (2010): 113–27. Cite

Eidevall, Göran. “The Role of Sacrificial Language in Prophetic Rhetoric.” In Ritual and Metaphor: Sacrifice in the Bible, edited by Christian A. Eberhart, 49–61. RBS 68. Atlanta: SBL, 2011. Cite

Forti, Tova. “Bee’s Honey—From Realia to Metaphor in Biblical Wisdom Literature.” VT 56 (2006): 327–41. Cite

Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. “The Planting of Man: A Study in Biblical Imagery.” In Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism, 19–34. JPS Scholar of Distinction Series. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2006. Cite

Kotzé, Zacharias. “Metaphors and Metonymies for Anger in the Old Testament: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach.” Scriptura 88 (2005): 118–25. Cite

Novick, Tzvi. “Wages from God: The Dynamics of a Biblical Metaphor.” CBQ 73 (2011): 708–22. Cite

Schwartz, Howard. “Does God Have a Body? The Problem of Metaphor and Literal Language in Biblical Interpretation.” In Bodies, Embodiment, and Theology of the Hebrew Bible, edited by S. Tamar Kamionkowski and Wonil Kim, 201–37. LHBOTS 465. New York: T&T Clark, 2010. Cite

Van Hecke, Pierre J. P. “Pastoral Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible and in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context.” In The Old Testament in Its World: Papers Read at the Winter Meeting, January 2003, The Society for Old Testament Study and at the Joint Meeting, July 2003, The Society for Old Testament Study and Het Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in Nederland En België, edited by Robert P. Gordon and Johannes C. de Moor, 200–17. Oudtestamentische Studiën 52. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Cite