Depicting Suffering, Imagining God. The Use of Metaphor in the Conceptualisation of Suffering and of the Divine in the Book of Job. KU Leuven
The project will consist of a number of distinct yet overlapping phases. A first, heuristic phase will identify the different metaphors in the text, which will, in a subsequent phase, be semantically analysed on the basis of the cognitive-linguistic insights in the functioning of metaphor. On the basis of these analyses, clusters of consistent and coherent metaphors will be identified, and their underlying conceptualisations of reality will be ...