How Long to Read Metaphor Competition in the Book of Job

How Long Does it Take to Read Metaphor Competition in the Book of Job?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Metaphor Competition in the Book of Job by Lance R. Hawley

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Within the book of Job, the interlocutors (Job, the friends, and Yahweh) seem to largely ignore one another's arguments. This observation leads some to propose that the dialogue lacks conceptual coherence. Lance Hawley argues that the interlocutors tangentially and sometimes overtly attend to previously stated points of view and attempt to persuade their counterparts through the employment of metaphor. Hawley uses the theoretical approach of Conceptual Metaphor Theory to trace the concepts of speech and animals throughout the dialogue. Beyond explaining the individual metaphors in particular texts, he shows how speech metaphors compete with one another, most perceptibly in the expressions of job's words are wind. With regard to animal metaphors, coherence is especially perceptible in the job is a predatory animal metaphor. In these expressions, the dialogue demonstrates intentional picking-up on previously stated arguments. Hawley argues that the animal images in the divine speeches are not metaphorical, in spite of recent scholarly interpretation that reads them as such. Rather, Yahweh appears as a sage to question the negative status of wild animals that Job and his friends assume in their significations of people are animals. This is especially apparent in Yahweh's strophes on the lion and the wild donkey, both of which appear multiple times in the metaphorical expressions of Job and his friends.

How long is Metaphor Competition in the Book of Job?

Metaphor Competition in the Book of Job by Lance R. Hawley is 257 pages long, and a total of 66,049 words.

This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Metaphor Competition in the Book of Job Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours to read Metaphor Competition in the Book of Job aloud.

What Reading Level is Metaphor Competition in the Book of Job?

Metaphor Competition in the Book of Job is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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