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Document Details : Title: Are People Walking after or before God? Author(s): VAN HECKE, P. Journal: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica Volume: 30 Date: 1999 Pages: 37-72 DOI: 10.2143/OLP.30.0.583575 Abstract : This article attempts to give an exposition of the meaning of two related expressions used metaphorically in describing the relation of men to their God/gods, viz. הלךְ אחרי to walk after (God) and הלךְ לפני to walk before (God). The analysis that will be proposed here draws heavily on the recent developments in cognitive linguistics. Within this discipline the study of metaphor has become a central issue, opening completely new insights in the function and meaning of metaphor. In these pages I will show in what way this new, cognitive approach to metaphor can add to a better understanding of Classical Hebrew expressions, in casu הלךְ אחרי and הלךְ לפני. Before turning to the analysis of the expressions themselves, I will introduce in the first part a number of theoretical concepts that will be useful in the description of their metaphorical function and meaning. |
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