The Bible is full of metaphors.
This book explores how common sensory activities like seeing, hear.
These conceptual Metaphors developed out of common concrete experiences and only gradually developed into the complex Metaphors that one finds within Biblical texts.
This book, however, argues that Biblical Metaphors reflect more basic, prelinguistic Cognitive structures.
On the surface, these Metaphors seem like simple literary flourishes that have been added to the text for artistic effect.
The Bible is full of metaphors