Bu çalışmanın amacı Kuran-ı Kerim'deki metaforları, indiği dönemin kullanımlarını dikkate alarak ortaya koymaktır. İlk bölümde metafor ve metaforik anlamın ne olduğu tarihsel arka planı ile birlikte incelenecektir. İkinci bölümde ise metaforun klasik ve çağdaş felsefedeki tanım …
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This doctoral thesis consisted of a cultural-rhetorical-cognitive approach to the work of the English street artist Banksy and in particular of his graffiti. By examining the aesthetics and function of Banksy’s graffiti in both street and contemporary art, this study has shown t…
In the Hebrew Bible, the God of ancient Israel, YHWH, is almost always portrayed metaphorically. He is likened to a warrior, a king, a shepherd, a rock, a bridegroom, a husband, and a master gardener, to name just a few. This study examines the emergence of the conceptual metaph…
The frequent use of illustrations in Biblical material involving "fruit" can imply complex meanings by the author. Because an author can use a common illustration to express a different meaning than another author (or even her own use in another context), the interpreter cannot …
This dissertation explores the language employed by the editor(s) of Leviticus Rabbah in their articulation of women's physiology and gestation in chapter 14. Established as a compilation of aggadic literature from 4 th and 5th century Palestine, Leviticus Rabbah reflects the so…
The present study explores the impact of Isaiah's vineyard story (Isa 5:1-7; 27:2-6) on the language, imagery, and theology of John 15:1-17. The study seeks to provide an exercise in biblical theology by way of a case study text, John 15:1-17. In so doing, the study seeks to con…
New Testament discussion over the meaning of the kingdom of God has been dominated by the scholarship of Norman Perrin. Perrin, adopting insights about symbols and myths from the works of Philip Wheelwright and Paul Ricoeur, categorized the kingdom of God as a symbol that evoked…
One of the metaphors that the Apostle Paul used to proclaim his understanding of the Christian experience of God's grace was justification, a metaphor taken from his Jewish background. From his understanding of the gospel, Paul needed to adapt the predominant Jewish understandin…
Cognitive science suggests that humans understand their world in terms of metaphorical projection from source domains of embodied and enculturated experience into target domains; of abstract concepts. This projection of schematized experience places metaphor at the core of under…
This work explores the use of athletic (agonistic) metaphors in the extant literature of the earliest Christian communities, particularly exploring athletic metaphors that appear in the writings associated with Paul (both in the undisputed letters such as Corinthians and Philipp…
This dissertation explores the relationships between John 6 and Exodus. Although many interpreters have noted connections between these texts, the predominant reading has been to emphasize the way in which Jesus replaces or supersedes the former things. For example, most have id…
The phrase “like a bride adorned” is one of the ways Revelation describes the new Jerusalem which descends from heaven. This phrase also can be read as describing one of the ways interpreters historically have understood the relationship between Revelation and its metaphorical l…
The present study proposes that the Song of Songs contains an inclusio and an implicit paradigm of nuptial images representing the ANE bridal chamber which functions as an interpretive framework for understanding the nature of the Song's erotic love. This proposal is based upon …
During the eighteen century there was a significant growth in patchwork materially and linguistically. It was the century when patchwork was stitched at all levels of society and has been identified as the time when patchwork moved out from the small domestic world of decorative…
Dual sensory impairment or 'deafblindness' imposes a special quality of engagement between the self and the social world. Yet novels, which specialise in the exploration of human subjectivity, have failed spectacularly to capture this. This thesis analyses the gap in representat…
This thesis argues that Lucretius employs five coherent groups of imagery in his De Rerum Natura to explain the fundamental laws and processes of his materialist philosophy. These groups, embedded in human experience, guide Lucretius' reader through the difficult, and at times u…
Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a symptomatically defined and debilitating condition that presents as a range of physiological and psychological effects. Post-exertional fatigue and ongoing low energy levels are cardinal fea…
This thesis explores the role of metaphor in the construction of early modern English national identity in the dramatic writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The metaphorical associations of character names and their imagined native or foreign stage settings helped mode…