The Torah/Law Is a Journey

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Using Cognitive and Culturally Oriented Linguistics to Interpret and Translate Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible

By Ivana Procházková

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The Torah/Law Is a Journey offers an insightful analysis of metaphor within the legal texts of the Old Testament, employing cognitive and cultural linguistics. Ivana Procházková explores how metaphorical language in the Torah reveals ancient perceptions of law's role in society. The work delves into Hebrew metaphors related to Torah/Law and examines their translation into modern languages, concluding with a study of metaphors in contemporary human rights education.
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An analysis of metaphor in the legal texts of the Old Testament using the tools of cognitive and cultural linguistics.

The Old Testament is rich in metaphor. Metaphorical expressions appear not only in places where you might expect them, like the poetic verses, but also in the legal texts. They appear in the preambles to collections of laws, in their final summaries, in general considerations on compliance with and violation of the law, in texts concerning the meaning of the law, and those dealing with topics now reserved for legal theory and legal philosophy. These metaphorical expressions reveal how the authors of the relevant Torah/Law texts understood their function in society and what the society of the time preferred in the law.

Anchored in cognitive and cultural linguistics, The Torah/Law Is a Journey investigates Hebrew metaphorical expressions concerning the key Old Testament concept of Torah/Law. Ivana Procházková identifies Hebrew conceptual metaphors and explicates the metaphorical expressions. She also uses cognitive linguistic analysis to look at modern translations of selected metaphorical expressions into Czech and English. Procházková closes with an analysis of the metaphors used in the Council of Europe publication Compass: Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People to conceptualize human rights.

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"It is a benefit to those interested in the intersection between cognitive linguistics and biblical studies, and especially to those who are intrigued by 'the Torah/Law is a journey' metaphor." — The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788024648422

Publisher: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 March 2022

Country: Czechia

Imprint: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic

Illustration: 3 line drawings, 44 tables

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 219

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Education & Reference Ivana Procházková Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality

About the Author

Ivana Procházková is the superintendent of the United Methodist Church in the Czech Republic.