The metaphorical crossings in campestral figures in Yirmiyahu 50: lions, fields, and flocks
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-8051.cllh.2025.228153Keywords:
Hebrew Bible, Metaphors, Linguistic analysis and theoryAbstract
This article analyses the characterisations of the character of Babel and of YHWH in the discourse of Yirmiyahu 50 through peasant metaphors that overlap and cross each other in complex images. Starting from a theoretical discussion on the literary, linguistic and argumentative role of metaphors, we have taken three texts as a corpus of analysis (Yirmiyahu 50:6-7, 17-20 and 44), from which they will be translated and commented on. The main contribution is the dynamic use and reuse of imagery from the pastoral world in the symbolic valuations of life, vengeance, justice and salvation in a context of poetic instruments in this text of classical Hebrew literature.
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