Journal articles: 'Biblical metaphor'

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Chau, Kevin. "Interpreting Biblical Metaphors: Introducing the Invariance Principle." Vetus Testamentum 65, no. 3 (August 3, 2015): 377–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685330-12301205.

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The scholarship concerning biblical metaphor has profited widely from the conceptual (cognitive) approach to metaphor, but a key principle from this approach, the Invariance Principle, has been widely overlooked as a valuable tool for the interpretation of biblical metaphors. The Invariance Principle allows biblical scholars to evaluate logically and with consistency the many varied interpretations that are often generated from exegetically difficult metaphors. This principle stipulates that the logical relationships of a metaphor’s source domain (the metaphorical elements) must correspond to the structure of logical relationships in the target domain (the literal elements). An extended analysis of the partridge metaphor in the riddle-based proverb of Jer 17:11 demonstrates how the Invariance Principle can be used to evaluate previous interpretations and to provide logical structure for generating a fresh interpretation to this proverb.

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Kuo, Yun-Hsuan, and Fu-Chu Chou. "Interpretation as a factor influencing translation: the case of a biblical metaphor." International Journal of Language, Translation and Intercultural Communication 3 (January 29, 2015): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/ijltic.38.

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This paper identifies interpretation as a crucial factor influencing translation of biblical metaphors. Data are drawn from five Chinese Bible translations. Qualitative analysis is conducted. The results show that it is highly likely for translators’ interpretation of biblical metaphors to affect the metaphor translation. More researches probing into translation variations of biblical metaphors in Chinese Bible translations are called for.

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Novick, Tzvi. "A Biblical Metaphor for חסד." Vetus Testamentum 70, no. 4-5 (October 11, 2019): 667–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685330-12341405.

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Abstract This paper identifies a link between two biblical syntagms involving חסד and a rabbinic syntagm involving חסד. The additional information in the rabbinic syntagm allows us to appreciate that the biblical syntagms figure חסד as a measuring line.

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Morozkina, E. A., M. M. Biktimirova, and E. V. Iskhakova. "BIBLICAL METAPHOR IN LITERARY TEXTS." Vestnik Bashkirskogo universiteta 7, no. 2 (2018): 538. http://dx.doi.org/10.33184/bulletin-bsu-2018.2.49.

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Naser, Hayder Sadeq, and Ali Badeen Mohammed. "The Persuasive Power of Religious Metaphor in Selected Qur’anic and Biblical Verses." Al-Adab Journal 2, no. 135 (December 15, 2020): 11–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v2i135.816.

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The issue of identifying metaphors is not clear-cut in most religious texts (Charteris-Black, 2005). For metaphors that are dealt with by religious texts such as human life as a journey or as a game, a prayer as a flowing river, the living martyrs (the living dead), a taste of death, the journey of the dead and “die, yet shall he live” are mostly spiritual matters for which academic appraisal is essential (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Gibbs, 2008). That is, the quality of the explanations that are presented by such metaphors need an intensive investigation, because these are the key function of metaphor in religious texts. Moreover, metaphors in sacred texts may be misjudged due to: the absence of the image in the target language and the different symbolic meanings of metaphor in the source text. Therefore, we aim to tackle such a problem via analysing the different forms and functions of metaphors in selected Qur’anic and Biblical verses. To operate such metaphorical analysis, a two-dimensional model is adapted from two different discourse analysts: aI-Sakaaki (2000) and Lakoff & Johnson (1980). The study reveals how the persuasive power of metaphor in the Qur’anic and Biblical verses related are regulated around the diversity of ontological, structural and orientational forms, and how every correlation between two domains of metaphors can shape its functions.

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Elvey, Anne. "Homogenizing Violence, Isa 40:4 (and Luke 3:5) and MTR (Mountaintop Removal Mining)." Worldviews 19, no. 3 (2015): 226–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685357-01903002.

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With the metaphor of leveling hills and filling valleys, Isa 40:4 presents an image of homogenizing violence toward Earth. This biblical text has been adopted by proponents of Mountaintop Removal Mining (hereafter, MTR). Justification of MTR by explicit reference to Isa 40:4 has occurred principally in response to Christian protests against MTR. The same text has been used by those resisting MTR. This article begins with ecophilosopher Val Plumwood’s critique of homogenization and draws on Paul Ricoeur’s reading of Aristotle on metaphor, to ask if, other than as a crass use as a proof-text for MTR, the application of Isa 40:4 to this destructive practice points to a deeper problem with homogenizing metaphors whose content is other-than-human. While the Isaian metaphor is problematic, it is grounded in the underlying liveliness of its subject. Attention to the liveliness of these biblical mountains and valleys allows that the text, and its metaphors, can also empower resistance to MTR. The liveliness underlying the mountains and hills of the Isaian metaphor can prompt a renewed focus on, and solidarity with, the Appalachian mountains and their communities.

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Forti, Tova. "Bee's honey—from realia to metaphor in biblical wisdom literature." Vetus Testamentum 56, no. 3 (2006): 327–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853306778149674.

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AbstractThe word děbāš in the Bible denotes various types of fruit syrup as well as the honey produced by bees. An overview of the literary adaptation of honey in biblical narrative and poetry leads us to an impressive assemblage of honey metaphors in the wisdom books of Proverbs and Job. This study identifies four rhetorical categories which encompass both didactic and reflective frameworks of honey imagery: A. 'Honey' as a metaphor of internalization wisdom and attaining good reputation; B. 'Honey' as a symbol of restraint and moderation against overindulgence; C. 'Honey' as a metaphor for temptation and ensnarement; D. 'Honey' in the context of the two antithetical idiomatic expressions; "Honey under the tongue" and "venom under the tongue". These expressions serve to draw an ideational contrast between the pleasant words of the Wise and the evil stratagems of the Wicked. My investigation will provide insight into the way that particular qualities of raw bee honey inspired the composers of the various metaphors.

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Warren, E. Janet. "‘Spiritual Warfare’: A Dead Metaphor?" Journal of Pentecostal Theology 21, no. 2 (2012): 278–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455251-02102007.

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The term ‘spiritual warfare’, referring to the Christian’s battle with evil spirits, was popularized by the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement and is the predominant language used in contemporary Christianity to describe encounters with evil spirits. This paper reviews the prevalence of military metaphors in popular and scholarly writings, and examines the problems associated with warfare language from linguistic, biblical, theological and psycho-social perspectives. I suggest that ‘spiritual warfare’ has become a dead metaphor: its metaphorical insights have been lost and other metaphors are neglected. Therefore renewed attention to metaphor theory is needed along with alternative language with which to discuss demonology and deliverance. I conclude with suggestions for supplementary metaphors/models, including cleansing, setting boundaries on evil, appropriating divine authority, and using light/dark imagery.

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Jindo, Job. "Toward a Poetics of the Biblical Mind: Language, Culture, and Cognition." Vetus Testamentum 59, no. 2 (2009): 222–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853309x406659.

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AbstractThis article shows how cognitive investigation of biblical metaphors enables us to fathom the basic categories through which biblical writers conceived of God, humans, and the world. This investigation is part of a work-in-progress that employs recent studies in cognitive linguistics to explore the Weltanschauung of ancient Israel as reflected in the use of language in biblical literature. The article first explains the cognitive linguistic account of metaphor; it next illustrates how this discipline can be applied to the study of the complex relationships between language, culture, and cognition; and it then exemplifies how this cognitive approach can enhance our understanding of such relationships in biblical literature.

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Green, B. "Biblical Metaphor: The Cosmic Garden Heritage." Acta Theologica 34, no. 1 (October 17, 2014): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/actat.v34i1.4.

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DiFransico, Lesley. "Identifying Inner-Biblical Allusion through Metaphor." Vetus Testamentum 65, no. 4 (October 28, 2015): 542–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685330-12301219.

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Commentators have often noted the numerous prophetic allusions contained in Psalm 51. Identifying and evaluating the nature of such inner-biblical allusions, however, is not without difficulty. An additional feature that connects the psalm to the prophets is the concept of washing away sin (Ps 51:4, 9; Isa 1:16; 4:4; Jer 2:22; 4:14), a distinctive metaphor that is found explicitly only in these passages. This paper will evaluate the connection between Psalm 51 and these prophetic passages vis-à-vis a study of the washing metaphor and will utilize the distinctive metaphor as a criterion for identifying and exploring inner-biblical allusion. The analysis of a metaphor that is rare or unusual within the Hebrew Bible has the potential to inform the identification and exploration of inner-biblical connections and can aid in the discussion of dependency and directionality.

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Vereza, Solange Coelho, and Raquel Luz Puente. "Embodied cognition in 'black metaphors': the BAD IS DARK metaphor in biblical texts." Signo 42, no. 75 (September 11, 2017): 02. http://dx.doi.org/10.17058/signo.v42i75.9962.

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Recent trends in metaphor studies have focussed on the cultural and ideological dimensions of the conceptualization of experience and its linguistic realization in discourse. Within this perspective, racism has been approached as the driving ideological force underlying the conceptual metaphor BAD IS DARKNESS, and more specific ones, such as DIFFICULT IS DARKNESS and IGNORANCE IS DARKNESS. These metaphors would, in turn, licence what has been referred to, in the literature, as ‘black metaphors’, i.e., metaphorical linguistic expressions which would evoke and, at the same time, perpetuate racism. The aim of this paper is to investigate an alternative hypothesis - without rejecting the ideologically-based one - to approach black metaphors, from the perspective of the sensorimotor experience with the physical phenomenon of darkness. This hypothesis is explored through an investigation of ‘black metaphors’ found in biblical texts. The choice of such corpus is justified, mostly, by the fact that racial discrimination, though clearly present in biblical times, did not seem to be so directly associated with skin colour as it has been more recently. The analysis looks firstly into the passages where the literal linguistic markers of the source domain are found, in order to investigate how the physical experiences with darkness are evaluated in the narratives. Secondly, the metaphorical uses of the same expressions are identified, and the target domains specified. The results of the analysis have confirmed the possibility of the conceptual projection from the sensorimotor experience with darkness onto negatively evaluated abstract notions. This seems to evidence the role of embodied cognition in metaphor, not just in its epistemic, but also in its evaluative function.

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Weiss, Sonja. "Cloud and Clothe : Hildegard of Bingen's metaphors of the fall of the human soul." Acta Neophilologica 49, no. 1-2 (December 15, 2016): 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.49.1-2.5-18.

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The paper examines Hildegard's use of metaphors in her visions of the human fall, and the way she combined the biblical motif of Original Sin with the philosophical question of a soul's embodiment, particularly in her moral play, Ordo virtutum, but also in her medical and visionary writings. The metaphor of the cloud sometimes blends with the metaphor of clothing (as in, "to clothe"), since the corporeal vestment of the soul before the Fall is said to resemble a cloud of light. Both metaphors are present in Hildegard's other works, particularly the image of the cloud, which is frequently used to illustrate cosmological implications of Original Sin. The metaphor of clothing, on the other hand, reveals parallels with certain Christian Gnostic revelations, blended with the Neo-Platonic doctrine of the soul as enslaved to the body.

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Balla, Péter. "Childbirth as a Biblical Metaphor for Crisis." Expository Times 121, no. 4 (January 2010): 167. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00145246101210040202.

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Samet, Nili. "On Agricultural Imagery in Biblical Descriptions of Catastrophes." Journal of Ancient Judaism 3, no. 1 (May 6, 2012): 2–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/21967954-00301002.

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This article examines the use of agricultural imagery in biblical literature to embody the destructive force of war and other mass catastrophes. Activities such as vintage, harvest, threshing, and wine-pressing serve as metaphors for the actions of slaughtering, demolition and mass killing. The paper discusses the Ancient Near Eastern origins of the imagery under discussion, and presents the relevant examples from the Hebrew Bible, tracing the development of this absorbing metaphor, and analyzing the different meanings attached to it in different contexts. It shows that the use of destructive agricultural imagery first emerges in ancient Israel as an instance of popular phraseology. In turn, the imagery is employed as a common prophetic motif. The prophetic books examined demonstrate how each prophet appropriates earlier uses of the imagery in prophetic discourse and adapts the agricultural metaphors to suit specific rhetorical needs.

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Smith, Helen. "Metaphor, Cure, and Conversion in Early Modern England*." Renaissance Quarterly 67, no. 2 (2014): 473–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/677408.

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AbstractOne of the most prevalent metaphors for conversion in early modern England was the cure of a diseased soul. This article draws together religious controversy, medical manuals, and individual accounts of conversion to chart the variety of sources that inform this metaphor, from the practical experience of the sickbed to the typological traditions of biblical interpretation. It explores the varied language of spiritual sickness in order to reevaluate both the operations of religious feeling and recent accounts of metaphor as embodied, and suggests instead that conversionary cures open up the category of imagined sensation and the complex connections between bodily and spiritual feeling in this period.

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Huang, Wen-Yi, and Wen-yu Chiang. "The kaleidoscope of divine images." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5, no. 1 (August 30, 2018): 155–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00017.hua.

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Abstract Compared to metaphors about God in the Bible, those in other Christian contexts seem to receive little academic attention. To bridge this gap, this study examines metaphors gathered from gospel songs on Billboard and iTunes to analyze the abstract concept of God from a cognitive linguistic viewpoint through extending the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Our findings indicate that while diverse kinds of metaphors focus on the multi-dimensionality of God such as his characteristics (e.g., GOD IS A MAGICIAN and GOD IS A LOVER), outline (e.g., GOD IS A CONTAINER and GOD IS LIQUID), and supreme status (e.g., GOD IS HIGH), structural metaphors tend to represent the overwhelming majority and thus form the basis for the structural-metaphor-dominant phenomenon. In addition, the flawless figure of God is suggested to result from the PERFECTION image schema which is responsible for hidden aspects in related metaphorical structures. Furthermore, metaphors about divine images, having their mapping details enriched by biblical context, are suggested to possess recessive metaphor inheritance. Finally, the rhythm of ‘chain of metaphors’ is proposed to interpret how the spirit of the songs about the divine being are brought out. This study sheds light on our overall understanding of the concepts of God in Christian culture, and contributes to the development of interdisciplinary studies concerning metaphor, religion, cognition, and culture.

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Pihlaja, Stephen. "“When Noah built the ark…”." Metaphor and the Social World 7, no. 1 (July 6, 2017): 87–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.7.1.06pih.

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Abstract This article investigates the use of biblical stories and text in the preaching of Joshua Feuerstein, a popular Facebook evangelist, and focuses on how biblical stories are used to position the viewer in comparison to biblical characters and texts. Taking a discourse dynamics approach (Cameron & Maslen, 2010), a corpus of 8 short videos (17 minutes 34 seconds) and their comments (2,295) taken from the Facebook are analysed first, for the presence of metaphorical language and stories taken from the Bible. Second, they are analysed for the role of metaphor in the narrative positioning (Bamberg, 1997) of the viewer, particularly as it relates to Gibbs’s notion of ‘allegorises’, or the ‘allegoric impulse’ (Gibbs, 2011). The corresponding text comments from the videos are then also analysed for the presence of the same biblical metaphor, focusing on how commenters interact with the metaphor and Feuerstein’s positioning of them. Findings show that biblical metaphorical language is used to position viewers and their struggles in the context of larger storylines that compare everyday experiences to biblical texts. This comparison can happen both in explicit narrative positioning of viewers with explicit reference to the Bible, and implicit positioning, through the use of unmarked biblical language. Analysis of viewer comments shows that use of metaphorical language is successful in building a sense of camaraderie and shared belief among the viewer and Feuerstein, as well as viewers with one another.

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Kuśmirek, Anna. "„I niosłem was na skrzydłach orlich” (Wj 19, 4) – metafora w tłumaczeniach targumicznych." Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny 57, no. 2 (June 30, 2004): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.21906/rbl.489.

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The phenomenon of biblical metaphor has been discussed in the context of Aramaic translation. This article will attempt to illustrate targumic approach to the biblical metaphor or simile from Ex 19:4 „I carried you away on eagle’s wings”. These translations may be classified into several groups: literal translation – word for word (Samaritan Targum), exegetical targums – one myth exchanged for another (Palestinian Targums – identification the eagles with the cloudes) and a twofold exegetical conception (T. Neofiti I).

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Shitikov, Pyotr M. "Applying Metaphor Identification Procedure (Mipvu) to Biblical Texts." Tyumen State University Herald. Humanities Research. Humanitates 4, no. 2 (2018): 34–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.21684/2411-197x-2018-4-2-34-43.

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Wenk, Matthias. "Light: A Pentecostal Reading of a Biblical Metaphor." Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association 26, no. 2 (October 2006): 168–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/jep.2006.26.2.009.

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Chau, Kevin. "METAPHORâ€™S FORGOTTEN BROTHER: A SURVEY OF METONYMY IN BIBLICAL HEBREW POETRY." Journal for Semitics 23, no. 2 (November 21, 2017): 633–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1013-8471/3510.

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Metaphor has long been a subject of interest for biblical scholarship; however metonymy, which is closely related to metaphor, has received far less attention. Metaphor and metonymy are distinct in their conceptual processes, metaphor juxtaposes two conceptually distinct domains and metonymy creates relationships within one conceptual domain, but they share many similarities and often function in concert in poetry. Although metaphor has received the lionâ€™s share of our attention, further study of metonymy will enrich our knowledge of metaphor and the poetics behind biblical poetry (i.e., the mechanisms and principles that govern poetry). This article introduces the two main forms of metonymy: taxonomic and partonomic. Taxonomic metonymy is based upon relationships between a more comprehensive and less comprehensive category (e.g., SPECIFIC FOR GENERAL), and partonomic metonymy is based upon contiguous relationships (e.g., PART FOR WHOLE). It surveys the various poetic functions of partonomic metonymy (semantic compaction, oblique reference, and semantic multivalency), and concludes by illustrating how accounting for metonymy can aid in solving the interpretive difficulties in the poetic passage of Jr 5:15-16.

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Gunter, Nathan H. "The shepherd-leader motif as a pastoral model for a globalizing church." Perichoresis 16, no. 3 (July 1, 2018): 87–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/perc-2018-0018.

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Abstract The simultaneous globalization and demographic shift of the Church to the Global South has produced an unprecedented climate for theological work. Pastors and theologians are confronted with the task of developing theological systems that are faithful to the authoritative standard of Scripture, tailored to the increasingly complex needs of their local contexts, and sensitive to the ongoing dialogue of other leaders around the globe. In light of the increasing cross-cultural dialogue among scholars and pastors within a globalized church and a corresponding desire to encourage greater ‘diasporadic consciousness’ therein, this article presents the biblical-theological shepherd-leader motif as a primary metaphor for understanding the distinct nature and role of pastoral leadership. This article presents shepherd leadership as a robust metaphor of pastoral leadership by reviewing Scripture’s use of the metaphor and recent significant works on the subject. In the second section of the article, I propose a model profile of the biblical shepherd-leader based upon the insights of the biblical-theological review.

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Kirkwood, Rachel. "“Stand Still in The Light”: What Conceptual Metaphor Research Can Tell Us about Quaker Theology." Religions 10, no. 1 (January 10, 2019): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10010041.

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The purpose of this study is to explore how an interdisciplinary approach can benefit Quaker Studies. The paper applies conceptual Metaphor Theory to help explicate aspects of theology in 17th century Quaker writings. It uses a combination of close reading supported by a corpus of related texts to analyse the writing of 4 key figures from the first decade of the movement. Metaphor analysis finds that orientational schemas of UP-DOWN and IN-OUT are essential structural elements in the theological thought of all 4 writers, along with more complex metaphors of BUILDINGS. Quaker writers make novel extensions to and recombinations of Biblical metaphors around Light and Stones, as well as using aspects of the theory of Elements. Such analysis can help explicate nuances of theological meaning-making. The evaluation of DOWN IS GOOD and UP IS BAD—except in specific circumstances—is distinctively Quaker, and embodied metaphors of divine immanence in humans indicate a ‘flipped’ soteriology which is distanced from the Christ event.

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Neary, Clara. "“Truth is like a vast tree”." Metaphor and the Social World 7, no. 1 (July 6, 2017): 103–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.7.1.07nea.

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This article focuses on Gandhi’s use of biblical metaphor in the English translation of his autobiography “The Story of My Experiments with Truth” (1940). The aim of the analysis is to show how Gandhi appropriated Christian ideology to his own life story when presenting it to an English-speaking audience. Given that metaphor use is “seldom neutral” (Semino, 2008, p. 32), underlying conceptual mappings can be revealing, particularly when the same conceptual frame is employed systematically across a text or discourse situation. Analysis of the English translation reveals a use of biblical metaphor which may constitute a deliberate appropriation of Christian ideology. This article suggests potential motivations for this appropriation, linking the text’s metaphor use to Gandhi’s desire to reform Hinduism and intention to counter the rising tide of Hindu-Christian conversion that threatened the success of his campaign for Indian political and spiritual independence.

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Lancaster, Mason D. "Metaphor Research and the Hebrew Bible." Currents in Biblical Research 19, no. 3 (June 2021): 235–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476993x20987952.

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This article provides an overview of metaphor theories and research on their own terms, as well as their use in Hebrew Bible (HB) studies. Though metaphor studies in the HB have become increasingly popular, they often draw upon a limited or dated subset of metaphor scholarship. The first half of this article surveys a wide variety of metaphor scholarship from the humanities (philosophical, poetic, rhetorical) and the sciences (e.g., conceptual metaphor theory), beginning with Aristotle but focusing on more recent developments. The second half overviews studies of metaphor in the HB since 1980, surveying works focused on theory and method; works focused on specific biblical books or metaphor domains; and finally noting current trends and suggesting areas for future research.

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Jacobsen, Anders-Christian. "The nature, function, and destiny of the human body—Origen’s interpretation of 1 Cor 15." Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity 23, no. 1 (April 1, 2019): 36–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zac-2019-0003.

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Abstract In this article, I will investigate Origen’s use of two metaphors: The seed metaphor and the clothing metaphor. Both metaphors are found in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, which Origen uses as his biblical foundation in the passage from On First Principles that will be analyzed in this article. My focus will be on how Origen understands the nature, the function, and the destiny of human beings and especially of human bodies. According to Origen, the nature of the human body is changeable and unstable. This is because the bodily matter has merely been added to the rational beings at a certain time and will disappear again when its function is fulfilled. The function of the human body is to clothe the rational being on its way through fall and spiritual progress towards perfection. Thus, the body allows the rational being to be punished and educated. The destiny of the human body is eventually to disappear, but this will only happen when the body has gone through many stages of fall and progress in its service of the rational being.

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Emerson, James G. "Book Review: Giving Birth: Reclaiming Biblical Metaphor for Pastoral Practice." Journal of Pastoral Care 49, no. 2 (June 1995): 238–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002234099504900218.

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James, Elaine. "“The Plowers Plowed”: The Violated Body in Psalm 129." Biblical Interpretation 25, no. 2 (April 11, 2017): 172–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685152-00250a02.

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Psalm 129 employs the metaphor of plowing the body. This metaphor is typically interpreted in light of the metaphor of yoked oxen common in other biblical texts. This paper considers an extension of the metaphor to include sexual violence. In light of the convergent uses in the metaphor of “plowing” in ancient texts to refer to both militarized violence and sexuality, “plowing the body” in Psalm 129 also has a nuance of sexual violence. This operates by analogy between the body of the victim and the land. This analogy provides for a coherent reading of the poem, Psalm 129, which employs agricultural imagery (plowing, sowing, harvesting, binding sheaves) throughout. The analogy between the body and the land via the metaphor of the plow suggests their shared vulnerability (to sexual violence, and to long-term agricultural destruction) in contexts of war.

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Llewelyn, Stephen, and Lydia Gore-Jones. "The Conceptual World of a Biblical Metaphor: the Metaphor of Sowing in 4 Ezra and Matthew." Biblical Interpretation 28, no. 2 (April 28, 2020): 202–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685152-00282p04.

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Paczkowski, Mieczysław Celestyn. "Metafora soli w Biblii i literaturze wczesnochrześcijańskiej." Vox Patrum 60 (December 16, 2013): 221–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/vp.3989.

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The article presents the complex symbolism of salt that was strongly influenced by the rites and beliefs of the pagan and the biblical world as well as early Christian literature. The salt is an element present in every aspect of human life (food, medicine and religious cults). It played an important role in sacrifices and offerings of Old Testament. For this reason, Jesus’ use of this metaphor was extremely familiar to His followers. On the biblical bases the various allegorical motifs of salt were present in Christian authors. Metaphors associated with the salt became precise and rich. Salt was a symbolic figure of wisdom, moral cleanness and incorruptibility. God’s salt enabled one to triumph over the spiritual enemy. The Fathers taught to point others to the way of life, to show how they might be preserved from death and destruction. They pointed out how the purpose of Christian life depended on their spiritual saltiness.

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Barton, Stephen C. "New Testament Interpretation as Performance." Scottish Journal of Theology 52, no. 2 (May 1999): 179–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930600053618.

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In recent study of the nature of NT interpretation, considerable attention in certain circles has been given to the possibility that there is one metaphor that is particularly appropriate for articulating what NT interpretation involves. It is the metaphor ofperformance. The purpose of this paper is to describe and develop this proposal and to give an assessment of it. To my knowledge, this is a task in biblical hermeneutics that has only just begun. If we ask why this is so, one possible answer lies in the fact that the proposal comes in the main from systematic and patristic theologians and therefore from outside the guild of biblical scholars. The consequence is that our customary division of labour inhibits us from attending with sufficient care to what our neighbours are saying even when it bears directly on our own work.

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Al-Ameedi, Riyadh Tariq Kadhim, and Manar Kareem Mehdi. "A Stylistic Analysis of Divine-Prophetic Discourse in Biblical and Quranic Texts." Education and Linguistics Research 4, no. 2 (July 11, 2018): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/elr.v4i2.13377.

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This paper attempts to identify the stylistic aspects of the language utilized in Divine-Prophetic discourse in Biblical and Quranic texts. Precisely, this work sets itself the task of answering the following question: what are the most prevalent stylistic devices implemented in this kind of discourse? Accordingly, the study aims at identifying the most common stylistic devices employed in Divine-Prophetic discourse and finding the interdifferences between Biblical and Quranic texts in this respect. It is hypothesized that Divine-Prophetic discourse utilizes certain stylistic techniques such as parallelism, repetition, alliteration, rhyme, simile, and metaphor. In order to achieve the aims of this paper and test its hypothesis, Leech and Short's (2007) categorization of figures of speech is utilized for the analysis of the data under scrutiny. Besides, a statistical method represented by the percentage equation is utilized for calculating the findings of analysis. The analysis is conducted on three Biblical texts taken from different books of the Old Testament and three Quranic texts taken from different suras of the Glorious Quran. Findings of the analysis reveal that the above hypothesis has been partially validated in the Biblical texts in that parallelism, repetition, alliteration, and simile have been widely implemented in these texts whereas rhyme and metaphor are not used at all. The same hypothesis, however, has been fully validated in the Quranic texts.

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Lane, Belden C. "Mother Earth as Metaphor: A Healing Pattern of Grieving and Giving Birth." Horizons 21, no. 1 (1994): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900027900.

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AbstractMother Earth is often revered as a goddess in world mythology, but seldom recognized as also an important metaphor in the biblical theology of Old and New Testaments. The image of the earth as grieving mother is a recurrent theme, used in Scripture to symbolize the movement from tragedy and loss to the beginnings of hope. It is an image rich in implications for a theological approach to ecological questions, a search for human and sexual wholeness in a technological age, and a study of the relationship of biblical thought to the universal process of mythogenesis. More than this, however, it touches most deeply the human quest for the lost mother and the role of Christ's passion in the renewal of spiritual connectedness to the natural world.

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Syreeni, Kari. "METAPHORICAL APPROPRIATION: (POST) MODERN* BIBLICAL HERMENEUTIC AND THE THEORY OF METAPHOR." Literature and Theology 9, no. 3 (1995): 321–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/9.3.321.

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Gravett, Emily O. "“Who Am I?”: The Biblical Moses as a Metaphor for Teaching." Teaching Theology & Religion 18, no. 2 (April 2015): 159–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/teth.12276.

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Gillbert, Erik. "Stop Sacrificing Children to Moloch." Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry 11, no. 2 (September 16, 2019): 41–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.18733/cpi29482.

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Erik Gilbert extends his extensive expertise on the assessment and evidence cultures in higher education here with a creative metaphor, a fable. He invites us to consider the Biblical God Moloch, and how through assessment obsession we’re participating in an archaic and illogical practice as inhumane as sacrificing children.

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Seeman, Don. "“Where is Sarah Your Wife?” Cultural Poetics of Gender and Nationhood in the Hebrew Bible." Harvard Theological Review 91, no. 2 (April 1998): 103–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816000032028.

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William Robertson Smith wrote in 1885 that the biblical convention whereby aman is said to “go in” to his bride represents a linguistic trace ofonce widespread “beenamarriage,” in which men joined the natal households of the women who took them as husbands. It was an error of literalist reductionism, but one that lent support to an imposing infrastructure of systematic kinship theory and evolutionism that continues to excercise an influenceon some contemporary scholars. Another way of saying this is that Robertson Smith failed to recognize a significant biblical metaphor—that of men enteringwomen's tents—when he saw one. This misapprehension of biblical poetics has had important consequences for the way in which he and his successors have interpreted the Hebrew Bible.

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Washington, Harold C. "Violence and the Construction of Gender in the Hebrew Bible: a New Historicist Approach 1." Biblical Interpretation 5, no. 4 (1997): 324–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851597x00120.

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AbstractThis programmatic essay examines the discursive connections between violence and gender in the Hebrew Bible, as well as the methodological problem of the perpetuation of these biblical gender constructions in scholarly interpretation. Adopting a New Historicist perspective on the mutually productive relation of text and culture, the essay asserts that the institutions of warfare and rape are fundamental to the discursive production of the gendered subject in biblical texts: violence against a feminine object is central to consolidation of masculine identity. The article examines Hebrew sacral war motifs, the Deuteronomic laws of warfare and rape, biblical narratives of sexual assault, the prophetic metaphor of divine judgment as rape, and the motif of women who kill in the book of Judges.

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Vincent, Gilbert. "Métaphores, paraboles et analogie: La référence à la théologie dans la pensée de Paul Ricœur." Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 3, no. 2 (December 14, 2012): 92–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/errs.2012.150.

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It is acknowledged that the study of metaphor is a key inflection in Ricœur’s heremeneutics. It is perhaps less well known that this study is concomittant with one of parables, which represents an equally noteworthy inflection in Ricœur’s contribution to Biblical hermeneutics. Some, however, use this concommitance to argue that the transfer of some theological presuppositions (as to the nature of language and the Truth) is facilitated by this and then do not hesitate to claim that the pages devoted to tha analogia entis, in The Rule of Metaphor, are proof of the presence of dubious theological interests in the development of his theory of metaphor. To counter this devastating critique, this article draws from some analyses by Umberto Eco, which imply that the relation between analogia entis and metaphor are not epistemologically scandalous as well as Alain, who sketched out an interpretation of parables which is very close to Ricœur’s.

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Vayntrub, Jacqueline. "‘To Take Up a Parable’: The History of Translating a Biblical Idiom." Vetus Testamentum 66, no. 4 (October 12, 2016): 627–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685330-12341252.

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The following study examines the history of the translation of a Biblical Hebrew phrase in Greek, Aramaic, and Latin—a phrase which shaped the English idiom “to take up a parable, proverb, or song.” As early as Greek and Aramaic Bible translations, the phrase NŚʾ mɔšɔl was translated word-for-word in the target language, even though the verb used in the target language did not previously attest the specific sense of “speech performance.” This same translational strategy persists in modern translations of this idiom, preventing scholars from understanding the idiom as it was used by biblical authors. The study compares the Biblical Hebrew phrase to a similar Ugaritic phrase, showing how it should be understood to express the voicing of speech rather than the initiating of speech. The study concludes by offering an English translation which more closely reflects the metaphor for voice-activation employed by the Biblical Hebrew phrase.

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Lamont, John. "Stump and Swinburne on Revelation." Religious Studies 32, no. 3 (September 1996): 395–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034412500024434.

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In his important book Revelation: From Metaphor to Analogy, Richard Swinburne has proposed a comprehensive account of the nature of Christian revelation. This account has been criticized by Eleonore Stump. Stump has raised objections to Swinburne's views on biblical interpretation, and to his deistic view of revelation. I will argue that her objections to his views on biblical interpretation are ill-founded. Her criticism of a deistic conception of revelation is justified, but the alternative that she offers to such a conception is unsatisfactory. I will suggest a different alternative, and argue that Swinburne's general account would be improved if he incorported it.

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Salvador González, José María. ""Flos campi et lilium convallium". Third Interpretation of the Lily in the Iconography of The Annunciation in Italian Trecento Art from Patristic and Theological Sources." Eikon / Imago 3, no. 1 (June 10, 2014): 75–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/eiko.73389.

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This paper (which complements two previous works of our authorship) proposes to interpret the bouquet of lilies in medieval images of The Annunciation in two essentially intertwined dogmatic meanings, related to Christology and Mariology. Contradicting conventional “explanations” of such flower in this Marian scene, we found our proposal in many and consistent testimony of some prestigious Church Fathers and medieval theologians, glossing the biblical sentence Ego sum flos campi et lilium convallium. Such lyrical expression is seen by those authors as a clear metaphor that identifies Christ, the incarnate Son of God, and that, as such, also refers to Mary, in whose virginal womb the Son of God's incarnation is produced. Thus, based on the solid patristic and theological tradition on this biblical sentence, we dare to interpret the bouquet of lilies in paintings of the Annunciation (illustrated here by nine paintings of the Italian Trecento) as a double metaphor, which means both the supernatural human incarnation of God the Son and the virginal divine motherhood of Mary.

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Eslinger, Lyle. "Ezekiel 20 and the Metaphor of Historical Teleology: Concepts of Biblical History." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 23, no. 81 (December 1998): 93–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030908929802308107.

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Woźny, Jacek. "Archeology as a Metaphor in Contemporary Culture." Qualitative Sociology Review 17, no. 1 (February 8, 2021): 28–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.17.1.3.

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The scientific discipline of archeology has gone through various stages of its development and improvement of research methods. First, it was combined with ancient history and the history of art. In the mid-nineteenth century, the base of its chronology was on biblical events. Modernist archeology of the twentieth century focused on classifying monuments and reconstructing cultural processes. In the second half of the twentieth century, archeology inspired other disciplines of culture and science to “stratigraphically” look at their own history. In this way, the stratification of scientific thought (archeology of knowledge), the history of photography (archeology of photography), and the media (archeology of media) began to be analyzed. Archeology has become a cognitive metaphor in contemporary culture. Lack of knowledge of the theoretical and methodological achievements worked out by archaeologists may, after some time, lead to the trivialization and petrification of the archaeological metaphor, although today it still seems fresh and innovative for “archeology of media,” “archeology of photography,” or “archeology of modernism.”

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Konacheva, Svetlana A. "IMAGINATION AND METAPHOR IN THEOLOGICAL LANGUAGE." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. Series Philosophy. Social Studies. Art Studies, no. 3 (2020): 48–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2020-3-48-63.

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The paper investigates the religious language interpretation in the contemporary continental philosophic theology. The author presents the central role of the imagination and metaphor in theological language. The diacritical hermeneutics of Richard Kearney is analyzed as an example of the theological language transition from the theologics to theopoetics. Modifications in the theological language are associated with transformations in the understanding of theology itself, which becomes a topological and tropological study. It considers the interpretation of imagination in Kearney’s early works, his attempts to describe “paradigmatic shifts” in the human understanding of imagination in different epochs of Western history. The author highlights mimetic paradigm of the pre-modern imagination, productive paradigm of the modern imagination and parodic paradigm of the postmodern imagination. Analysis of Kearney’s “biblical” interpretation of imagination allows one to understand the imagination as the point of contact of God with humanity. She also considers how Ricoeur’s theory of metaphor influences the development of the poetic language in postmodern Christian theology and demonstrates that poetic and religious languages are brought together by an “imaginative variations”. The author argues that turning to imagination in religious language allows theological hermeneutics to move from the static to kinetic images of God.

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de Hulster, Izaak J. "The Challenge of Hebrew Bible Love Poetry: A Pleonastic Approach to the Translation of Metaphor—Part 2." Bible Translator 71, no. 2 (August 2020): 209–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2051677020910343.

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Part 1 of this article made a case for “pleonastic” translation, i.e., adding pleonasms (synonymous adjectives) to metaphorical nouns to bridge the cultural distance between the ancient Israelite text and the present-day reader. Part 2 exemplifies this approach with a translation of some of the body-description verses from the Song of Songs (esp. 7.2-6 [English 7.1-5]). Introductory considerations concerning this biblical book are offered, addressing, e.g., life-setting, register, and hermeneutical key. Rooted in translation theory and metaphor theory, this article draws attention to the various aspects of the Song of Songs and proposes a “dynamic equivalent” way (following Nida and Taber’s call for clarity) to provide present-day readers with a comprehensible translation of its ancient metaphors. This results in a respectful translation with additional pleonasms and other types of elucidations.

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Thöne, Yvonne Sophie. "FEMALE HUMANIMALITY: ANIMAL IMAGERY IN THE SONG OF SONGS AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ICONOGRAPHY." Journal for Semitics 25, no. 1 (May 9, 2017): 389–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1013-8471/2546.

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This article examines the interconnectedness of humans and animals in the biblical Song of Songs. After giving an overview about the Song’s use of metaphor, the humanimal association of woman and animal is analysed. The image of the woman as a mare drawing the chariots of the Egyptian king (Song 1:9) evokes the impression of a strong and precious being but one simultaneously under male command. The metaphor of the woman as a dove in the clefts of the rock (Song 2:14) shows an independent person, who is hard to reach and is closely associated with the ancient love goddess in her temple.

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Vondey, Wolfgang. "Soteriology at the Altar: Pentecostal Contributions to Salvation as Praxis." Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 34, no. 3 (November 16, 2016): 223–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265378816675831.

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The day of Pentecost serves as a central integrative theme for the practices, theological concepts, and biblical narratives nurturing Pentecostal soteriology. The so-called “full gospel” provides the basic contours for ritual reflection among Pentecostals and recognizes salvation as both initial metaphor for Pentecostal theology and principal theological theme. The foundational soteriological plot of Pentecost is appropriated by Pentecostals in diverse contexts through the foundational rite of the altar call and response. A Pentecostal reading of salvation from the biblical account of Pentecost and a subsequent articulation of Pentecostal soteriology cast in the image of Pentecost identifies the Pentecostal contribution to Christian soteriology as a persistent emphasis on salvation as praxis.

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Smith, David I. "Teaching is Breaking Bread: Biblical Metaphor, Educational Vision, and Bernard's Evocation of Learning." Journal of Christian Education os-55, no. 1 (May 2012): 29–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002196571205500105.

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