Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- How to Navigate This Book -- Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy -- Mental Space Blending and Conceptual Framing -- Construction Grammar and Cognitive Grammar -- Motivating Biblical Metaphors for God - Refining the Cognitive Model -- What Does Metaphor Do? -- Metaphors for Human Relationship to God -- Thoughts on New and Old Metaphors, and on Directionality -- Conclusions -- Looking beyond the Tree in Jeremiah 17:5-8 -- Interpreting the Passage via the Two Ways Doctrine -- Cognitive Contraindications to the Two Ways Interpretation -- An Alternative Reading of Jeremiah 17:5-8 -- Structure -- Genre -- Purpose, Audience, and Situation -- Difficult Vocabulary: (arar) -- Theme -- Cursing Unit -- Blessing Unit -- Discussion -- Desert Plant versus Destitute -- Conclusion -- "Don't think of a voice!" - Divine Silence, Metaphor, and Mental Spaces in Selected Psalms of Lament -- Divine Absence as an Object of Biblical Research -- What Is Silence? -- Silence in the Hebrew Bible and the Psalms -- God-Language -- Silence as Metaphor -- "Do not be silent!" -- Mental Spaces of Divine Silence -- ('l-tkhrsh) as Performative Language -- Between Lament and Praise -- The Fruit of the Tree of Life - Ritual Interpretation of the Crucifixion in the Gospel of Philip -- The Tree of Life -- Two Trees of Knowledge -- Separation -- Category Inversion and Subversion -- Conclusion -- Pauline Rhetorical Invention - Seeing 1 Corinthians 6:12-7:7 through Conceptual Integration Theory -- A Cognitive Turn -- Seeing 1 Cor 6:12-7:7 through Conceptual Integration Theory -- Wisdom as Host Rhetorolect (1 Cor 6:12) -- Decompression and Analogy (1 Cor 6:13-14) -- Part-Whole (1 Cor 6:15) -- Identity (1 Cor 6:16-17) -- Elaboration (1 Cor 6:18-20) -- Two Sexual Solutions (1 Cor 7:1-2) -- Sex and Plenty of It (1 Cor 7:3-4).

A Blended Option (1 Cor 7:5-6) -- Imitation and Discernment (1 Cor 7:7) -- Conclusion -- Sapiential Synesthesia - The Conceptual Blending of Light and Word in Ben Sira's Wisdom Instruction -- Symbolic Synesthesia -- Primary Conceptual Metaphors for Knowing -- Cultural Assumptions about Vision and Audition -- Cultural Beliefs and Complex Metaphors for the Perception of Wisdom -- WISDOM IS LIGHT -- WISDOM IS WORD -- The Conceptual Blending of Light and Word -- Conclusion -- The Cognitive Structures in Galatians 1:4 -- Galatians 1:4 in Its Literary and Rhetorical Context -- The Background of Galatians 1:4 -- Voluntary Death -- Opposing Aeons -- Conceptual Integration -- The Narrative Structures -- The Narrative Structure of the Mental Spaces -- Blending the Spaces -- The Argument in Galatians -- Conclusion -- Who Is in Charge? - Mental Space Analysis and Visualization in a Textual Study, Applied to 1 Samuel 28:3-25 -- Mental Space Theory and Its Adaptation for Textual Studies -- A Short Sketch of Mental Space Theory -- From Line to Text, or: From Achilles to Saul -- QOR-Spaces as a Special Type of Conversation Dynamics -- Assignment of ל lō, "for him" (v. 17a), to ledāwid, "to David" (v. 17d), Using the Access Path Principle in Mental Spaces Theory -- Dialogue / Monologue -- Conclusions -- Cognitive Grammar at Work in Sodom and Gomorrah -- Cognitive Grammar and Method of Analysis -- Cognitive Grammar -- The Proposed Cognitive Method of Analysis -- Sodom and Gomorrah -- Categories and Cognitive Domains: Juridical Terminology and Framework -- A Cognitive Study of the Words "Outcry" and "to Cry Out" -- A Cognitive Study of the Word "City Gate" -- A Cognitive Study of the Text of Genesis 18-19 in Its Wider Conceptual Context -- … And in an Even Wider Conceptual Context -- Conclusions -- 1 John 1:5-10: Conditionals and Performativity.

Structure of the Passage -- Cognitive Linguistics, Mental Spaces, and 1 John 1 -- 1 John 1:6 -- Conditionals, Verb Tenses, and Epistemic Distance -- Conditionals and Clausal Structure -- 1 John 1:7 -- 1 John 1:8 -- Construal and Verbal Voice -- 1 John 1:9 -- 1 John 1:10 -- Summary -- Translating "Thinking" and "Believing" in the Bible - How Cognitive Linguistic Analysis Shows Increasing Subjectivity in Translations -- Causal Connectives -- Cognitive Verbs -- Representation of Cognitive Activity by THINK -- Translating BELIEVE -- Concluding Remarks -- List of Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.