• Acknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction 1.1 Spatial Metaphors in the Prologue 1.2 Hypothesis and Background 1.3 Structure
• 2 Conceptual Metaphor Theory: A Pragmatic Synthesis 2.1 Metaphor: An Introduction 2.2 What is One `Thing' and What is `Another'? 2.3 What is `Understanding' One Thing in Terms of Another? 2.4 The Competitive Edge of Metaphors We Live By 2.5 Critiques of Metaphors We Live By 2.6 Conclusion
• 3 Spatial Metaphor in Language and Cognition 3.1 Definition 3.2 Spatial Semantics 3.3 Spatial Metaphors 3.4 Conclusion 3.5 Application
• 4 Boundaries and Containment 4.1 The Body is a Container 4.2 The Boundaries of the Body 4.3 The Boundaries around the Body 4.4 Boundaries in the Prologue 4.5 The Rationale behind These Metaphors 4.6 Conclusion
• 5 Place and Placelessness 5.1 Retribution is the Attribution of a Place 5.2 Rootedness and Rootlessness 5.3 Metaphorical Objects and their Place 5.4 Conclusion
• 6 Direction and Distance 6.1 Ethics is a Journey 6.2 Ethics is Distance 6.3 Ill-being is a Moving Object 6.4 Conclusion
• 7 Job's Post-Traumatic Spatial Metaphors as Theological Challenges 7.1 Spatial Metaphors in the Prologue and Dialogue 7.2 Job's Lack of Control and God's Agency 7.3 Spatial Causality as a Challenge to Retribution Theology 7.4 Conclusion
• 8 Spatial Configurations in the Divine Speech 8.1 Interpreting the Divine Speech 8.2 An Alternative Geography 8.3 A Different Landscape 8.4 Conclusion
• 9 Conclusion Bibliography Indexes.
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Metaphorical Landscapes and the Theology of the Book of Job demonstrates how spatial metaphors play a crucial role in the theology of the book of Job. Themes as pivotal as trauma, ill-being, retribution, and divine character are conceptualized in terms of space; its imagery is thus dependent on spatial configurations, such as boundaries, distance, direction, containment, and contact. Not only are spatial metaphors ubiquitous in the book of Job-possibly the most frequent conceptual metaphors in the book-they are essential to its theological reasoning. Job's spatial metaphors form a metaphorical landscape in which God's character and his creation are challenged in unprecedented ways. In the theophany, God reacts to that landscape. This book introduces a pragmatic synthesis of both conceptual metaphor theory and spatial semantics and it demonstrates their exegetical and hermeneutic potential.
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• Preface
• General Introduction
• Description of Manuscripts and Editing Principles of the Hebrew Text
• Introduction to the English Translation
• Judah Hadassi's Eshkol ha-kofer, Preliminary Acrostics and Alphabets 1-100-Hebrew Edition and English Translation
• Judah Hadassi and the Greek Language in Twelfth-Century Constantinople and Glossary of Greek Terms in Eshkol ha-kofer
• Bibliography Indices.
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Judah Hadassi was the most prominent Karaite Jewish author of twelfth-century Byzantium, steeped in Karaite and Byzantine Greek traditions. In Theological Encounters at a Crossroads: An Edition and Translation of Judah Hadassi's Eshkol ha-kofer, First Commandment, and Studies of the Book's Judaeo-Arabic and Byzantine Contexts, a scientific edition of the first quarter of the Hebrew text of Hadassi's magnum opus is presented with an English translation, a summary of his theology, a discussion of his use of the Greek language, and a linguistic analysis and transcription of all the Greek terms which appear in Hebrew letters in the entire treatise. This book should be of interest to students of Jewish thought, Hebrew literature and medieval Byzantine culture and language.
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