The King is a Tree: Arboreal Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible

This dissertation constitutes a cognitive semantic analysis of arboreal metaphors in the Hebrew Bible, insofar as they operate within metaphorical complexes and with a view to understanding those instances in which they function with a king as their tenor. Its primary aim is exegetical and it should be considered an example of both a theoretical and an image-based analysis. By undertaking eight separate case studies, my aim is to demonstrate the interanimation of tropes within metaphorical complexes, and to develop a broader understanding as regards the function of this one trope in particular. In the first part of this thesis, I conduct four separate analyses that concern applications of the metaphor, A PERSON IS A TREE. The passages chosen were taken less for their paradigmatic nature than for their ability to convey both the versatility of the arboreal metaphor and the manner in which it interacts with other tropes within a metaphorical complex. In order to demonstrate this point most effectively, I have deliberately chosen passages that on superficial levels are considered to be very similar to one another. In the second part of the thesis, I turn my attention to the trope, THE KING IS A TREE. Once again, the passages chosen were picked on the basis of their ability to convey this trope's versatility, and on the basis of their constituting metaphorical complexes. By conducting an additional four case studies, my aim is to demonstrate the added range of meaning that arboreal tropes convey when their tenor is a king, and to demonstrate the sorts of situations in which THE KING IS A TREE is employed

The Cursing of the Barren Fig Tree (Mark 11:2-14)

The main purpose of this paper, however, is to attempt to answer the third question listed above; it is hoped that in the process of the discussion solutions to some of the other difficulties will also suggest themselves. Concentrating on the Markan account, we will proceed first by discussing various answers that have been suggested to the question: what was the original purpose of the story? Secondly, the text will be examined exegetically and its context in Mark will be scrutinized in an effort to determine which of the suggested answers best accords with the evidence. Because of the scope of the paper we will limit our detailed analysis to the actual account of the cursing in Mark 11:12-14; the account of the withering of the fig tree and the subsequent sayings on faith and prayer (Mk. 11:20-25) will be discussed as context

UA68/6/2 Voices, Vol. VI, No. 2

Magazine produced by the Western Writers, a group of student readers and writers devoted to good writing and determined to encourage those interested in creative work. It presents members\u27 best efforts in other than class-assigned papers. Special edition dedicated to member Cecil Richard Oakley\u27s work. He died November 4, 1961

Bliss Delight and Pleasure in Paradise Lost

There have been many studies of keywords in Paradise Lost. Over the last fifty or so years words such as �wander�, �lapse�, �error�, �fruit�, �balmy�, �fall�, �hands�, among others, have attracted critics� attention. The present enquiry brings under scrutiny three linked keywords which have up to now escaped notice. These are the words �bliss�, �delight�, and �pleasure�. The fundamental proposition of the thesis is that Milton does not use these words haphazardly or interchangeably in his epic poem (though in other of his poetic productions he is by no means as fastidious). On the contrary, he self-consciously distinguishes among the three terms, assigning to each its own particular �theatre of operations�. Meant by this is that each keyword is selectively referred to a separate structural division of the epic, thus, �bliss� has reference specifically to Heaven (or to the earthly paradise viewed as a simulacrum of Heaven), �delight� to the earthly paradise in Eden and to the prelapsarian condition nourished by it; while �pleasure�, whose signification is ambiguous, refers in its favourable sense (which is but little removed from �delight�) to the Garden and the sensations associated with it, and in its unfavourable one to postlapsarian sensations and to the fallen characters. Insofar as the three structural divisions taken into account (Hell is not) are hierarchically organized in the epic, so too are the three keywords that answer to them. Moreover, in relating keywords to considerations of structure, the thesis breaks new ground in Paradise Lost studies

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The untold death of Laertes: revaluating Odysseus's meeting with his father

This article discusses the narrative function and symbolism of the Laertes scene in the twenty-fourth book of the Odyssey. By pointing out the scene’s connections to other passages (the story of Penelope’s web, the first and second nekuia, the farewell to the Phaeaceans, the Argus scene, but also the twenty-fourth book of the Iliad) and by tackling some of the textual problems that it poses (the apparent cruelty of Odysseus’s lies to his father, the double layers of meaning in his fictions, the significance of the sêma of the trees), this article aims to point out how the Laertes scene is tightly woven into the larger thematic and symbolical tissue of the Odyssey. Odysseus’s reunion with his father is conclusive to the treatment of some important themes such as death and burial, reciprocal sense of love and duty and the succession of generations. It will be argued that the untold death of Laertes becomes paradigmatic for the fate Odysseus himself chooses, and for the way in which the epic as a whole deals with the problem of mortality

Plants, Forests and Forest operations

Лексико-грамматические задания пособия нацелены на пополнение лексического запаса обучающихся, на развитие навыков всех видов чтения литературы по лесной тематике. Пособие «Plants, Forests and Forest operations» предназначено для второкурсников очной формы обучения в лесотехническом вузе