SUGGESTION: Bible Sense Study Guide for figurative language / imagery / symbolic use

This guide would be designed to accumulate the cultural knowledge / connotations of a sense rather than the linguistic information regarding a lemma.

1. The basic item entered would be a sense from the BSL e.g. eagle.

2. Topic Section as currently in the BWS to provide access to Bible dictionaries. Include links to initiate the Bible Sense Lexicon, Factbook and Topic Guides.

3. A new section similar to the Topic Section in the sense of seeking headwords for Cultural Handbooks/Dictionaries. Examples:

• Pilch, John J. A Cultural Handbook to the Bible. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company: Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K., 2012.
• Ryken, Leland, Jim Wilhoit, Tremper Longman, Colin Duriez, Douglas Penney, and Daniel G. Reid. Dictionary of Biblical Imagery. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000.
• Beck, John A., ed. Zondervan Dictionary of Biblical Imagery. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011.

4. The equivalent of the translation rings of the BWS for Hebrew, LXX, Greek NT, Vulgate based on sense rather than lemma.

5. A new Figurative Speech section of a Bible search based on criteria in the form of eagle WITHIN {Label Figure of Speech} with results sorted by figure of speech or language/lemma or Bible reference order.

6. The equivalent of Collection sections for:

• ancient near eastern literature
• pseudepigrapha and apocrypha
• rabbinic literature
• material culture - archaeological resources

To be added when possible:

7. Section with relationships important in the substitution type figures of speech:

• hyponyms - sense that is more specific
• hypernyms - sense that is more general
• meronym - sense that is a constituent part
• holonym - sense of the whole of which this is a constituent part

this would also allow one to narrow references from eagle to eagle's wings, eagle's face

8. A closely related section of semantic domain that would include things such as eagle's nest, eagle's flight ...

I'm sure that you have on staff people who can improve on this basic concept based on their knowledge of the inner workings.