From Literal to Literary: The Essential Reference Book for Biblical Metaphors by James Rowe Adams
https://www.amazon.com/Literal-Literary-Essential-…
"In my opinion, Christians who can't cope with metaphors have done their best, perhaps unintentionally, to spoil the faith for the rest of us." is more controversial than the rest of this essential resource book in which you always know where the author stands.
Amazon blurb said:"The newly updated second edition of this professional reference tool examines over 165 biblical metaphors - 15 of which are new - and includes an index to Hebrew and Greek words, an index of Bible citations, and a pronunciation guide for transliterated Hebrew and Greek words. Will be useful for sermon preparation and Christian education, especially adult Bible study groups."
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Are you sure? Granted a snappy title and blurb. But the two reviews I could dig up suggest a loosey-goosey presentation (aka often opinionated). Besides the Amazon one:
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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DMB said:
Are you sure? Granted a snappy title and blurb. But the two reviews I could dig up suggest a loosey-goosey presentation (aka often opinionated). Besides the Amazon one:
Er..ah.. I tried to indicate that he was opinionated and a bit eccentric without using the dreaded p-word. But his bias takes things to precisely where Logos doesn't go and on the whole, the metaphors he covers, he covers in detail firmly tied to the Greek/Hebrew and very aware of the danger of anachronisms in the interpretation.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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