Family of the King : Dynamics of Metaphor in the Gosepl According to John (Biblical Interpretation Series)

Van Der Watt, Jan G.

Brill Academic Pub（2000/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 467 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004116603
• DDC分類 226.5066

Full Description

Nearly all metaphors in the Gospel according to John relate to ancient family imagery. Thus, the disciples are born of the Father; the Father provides them with bread and drink (water); He educates them and protects them and a dwelling is prepared for them, and so on. This family imagery, which is interwoven throughout the Gospel in a complex network, provides a key to the understanding of the message of the Fourth Gospel.
In this volume, after exploring numerous state-of-the-art theories on metaphor, a customised metaphor theory is developed from the Fourth Gospel itself, which can be applied to the analysis of the Gospel as a whole. The theory is based on two of the best-known metaphors in the Fourth Gospel: I am the Good Shepherd, and I am the True Vine. Subsequently, all other metaphors are analysed according to this theory.