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Article: Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis: Evidence from the Ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and IQH XI, 1-18
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- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Claudia D. Bergmann, Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis: Evidence from the Ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and IQH XI, 1-18 (BZAW 382; Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2008). Pp. ? + 267. euro72.90.
In his seminal article on metaphor (1954-55), Max Black introduces the notion of "associated commonplaces" to describe the "readily and freely evoked" associations that hearers have with a metaphor. Reflecting on the example "Man is a wolf," he explains that the metaphor evokes "a set of standard beliefs about wolves (current platitudes) that are the common possession of the members of some speech community" ("Metaphor," in Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor [ed. Mark Johnson; Minneapolis: ...