Title: Yahweh fighting from heaven : God as warrior and as God of heaven in the Hebrew psalter and ancient Near Eastern iconography /
Authors: Klingbeil, Martin.
Publisher: University Press ; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Jahwe.; Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.; God Attributes; Image of God; Symbolism in the Bible; God Comparative studies; Art Middle East; Middle East Antiquities
Contents: (1) Introduction -- Terminology -- Objectives -- (2) Methodological preliminaries -- Procedure -- Survey of metaphors of God in the Psalms -- Internal-exegetical analysis -- External-iconographic analysis -- Comparison -- (3) Metaphors of God in the Psalms -- Biblical metaphor -- Review of literature -- Theories of Biblical metaphor -- Substitution theory of metaphor -- Universal theory of metaphor -- Intermediate theory of metaphor -- Characteristics and types of biblical metaphor -- Characteristics and types of biblical metaphor -- General types of metaphor -- Between living and dead metaphors -- Understanding metaphors -- Biblical metaphors of God -- The metaphorical nature of God-talk -- Anthropomorphisms and the metaphors of God -- Religious historical and literary historical aspect -- Evaluation of biblical metaphor -- Survey of metaphors of God in the Psalms -- Statistical evaluation of survey -- Overall distribution of metaphors -- Distribution according to metaphor type -- Distribution according to metaphor category -- Detailed distribution of warrior and God of heaven metaphors