It takes the average reader 3 hours and 41 minutes to read Mixing Metaphors by Sarah J. Dille
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While most treatments of biblical metaphor examine individual metaphors in isolation, Sarah J. Dille presents a model for interpretation based on their interaction with one another. Using Lakoff and Johnson's category of "metaphoric coherence", she argues that when nonconsistent or contradictory metaphors appear together in a literary unit, the areas of overlap (coherence) are highlighted in each. Using the images of father and mother in Deutero-Isaiah as a starting point, she explores how these images interact with others: for example, the divine warrior, the redeeming kinsman, the artisan...
Mixing Metaphors by Sarah J. Dille is 216 pages long, and a total of 55,296 words.
This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 2 minutes to read Mixing Metaphors aloud.
Mixing Metaphors is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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