These expressions were coined to disguise everything from capital punishments to diseases, death, slavery, and cannibalism.
In a paper read at the International SBL meetings in Vienna, 2007, I discussed the relationship between the literary and literal image. Taking metaphor as the most prominent trope of biblical imagery, ...
What if literature was an invention for making us happier and healthier? wenjin chen/Getty Images Shortly after 335 B.C., within a newly built library tucked just east of Athens’ limestone city walls, ...
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