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Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East / edited by Marta Pallavidini and Ludovico Portuese

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Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020.
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1 online resource (vi, 199 pages).
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Pallavidini, Marta and Portuese, Ludovico
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Researching metaphor in the ancient near east : an introduction / Ludovico Portuese and Marta Pallavidini -- The lion, the shepherd, and the master of animals : metaphorical interactions and governance representations in Mesopotamian and Levantine sources / Stéphanie Anthonioz -- To serve woman : Jezebel, Anat, and the metaphor of women as food / Esther Brownsmith -- Visualizing 'death' (Môtu) in the Ugaritic texts / Joseph Lam -- Aššur is King! : The metaphorical implications of embodiment, personification, and transference in ancient Assyria / Davide Nadali -- How did they think? : towards use of metaphor theories to research the Hittite conceptual world -- Cows of battle, urinating lions, and frightened falcons : on metaphor in Sumerian literary compositions / Judith Pfitzner -- Live and let live images : metaphor and interpictoriality in neo-Assyrian art / Ludovico Portuese -- The significance of the embrace metaphor in the inscription KARKAMIŠ A 21 / Claudia Posani -- Metaphors and conceptual metaphors in the Mesopotamian medical texts / Silvia Salin -- Metaphor for the construction of spontaneous meaning : examples gathered from the rural landscape in Sumerian literature / Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira -- "Squeezing" like oil from a sesame seed : on the conceptual background of metaphoric expressions in Akkadian diplomatic texts originating from Ḫatti / Lisa Wilhelmi.
Summary
Metaphor has intrigued philosophers, rhetoricians, and poets since Antiquity. The phenomenon of metaphor has been mostly interpreted as a figure of speech, and only in last decades of the 20th Century the so-called cognitive turn defined metaphor as a product first of the thought and then of the language. According to this view metaphor is used in everyday life and it is present, therefore, potentially, in every type of texts. Furthermore, metaphor can be identified also in images that convey specific concepts. Both as a figure of speech and as a cognitive phenomenon, the research of metaphor in the ancient Near Eastern written sources has never been thoroughly investigated. Yet the study of metaphor will consent to win a deeper knowledge of the texts and of the system of thinking of the cultures that produced those texts. Therefore, this volume edited by Marta Pallavidini and Ludovico Portuese aims to research metaphor from different perspectives by considering its presence in ancient Near Eastern written documents. The contributions focus on several ancient Near Eastern cultures and encompass more than two millennia as well as examine various topics, from Sumerian literature, to Hittite written sources, to Neo-Assyrian art to the Biblical world. --
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9783447390224 (electronic bk.)
3447390220 (electronic bk.)
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Papers presented at the workshop held at the 65th Rencontre assyriologique internationale in July, 2019 in Paris, France.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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