The research unit aims at advancing the scholarly understanding of the multi-faceted phenomenon of biblical metaphor by stimulating discussion between the different approaches (e.g. literary, linguistic, hermeneutic, motiv-kritisch) to metaphor. The unit provides a platform for both methodological discussions and also the presentation of applied metaphor research.
Chairs
Previous publications of the Unit
The papers of the 2002-2004 meetings were published as: P. Van Hecke (ed.), Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible, BETL 187, Leuven: Peeters, 2005. (Papers by P. Riede, B. Doyle, G. Eidevall, A, Labahn, E. Holt, A.R. Diamond, G. Baumann, M.B. Szlos, S. Gillmayr-Bucher, P. Van Hecke, R. Hunziker-Rodewald, A. Boeckler, K. Nielsen)
The papers of the 2005-2006 meeting will be published in 2007 by Peeters Publishers, Leuven. For more details, please contact the chairs.
Future Programme
For its 2007 meeting, the Research Program is open to papers dealing with any aspect of metaphor research in the Hebrew Bible. The chairs plan on having thematically specialised seminars again in the years 2008-2009, as was the case in 2005-2006 (Metaphor in the Psalms). The Research Group is open to different methodological approaches to metaphor, in the conviction that only the integration of linguistic, literary and theological methodologies will be able to fully grasp the phenomenon of religious metaphor.