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A parallel passage of Genesis that Philo and the writers of the New Testament devoted a significant amount of effort to explaining and expanding is Chapter 2, verse 7.
“A parallel passage of Genesis that Philo and the writers of the New Testament devoted a significant amount of effort to explaining and expanding is Chapter 2, verse 7: 'And God formed the man by taking clay from the earth, and breathed into his face a breath of life (ἐνεφῦσησεν εἰς τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ πνοὴν ζωῆς), and the man became a living soul'.53”
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- Shen, Y.
- Corresponding author
- Shen, Yeshayahu
- ORCID
- Shen, Yeshayahu
- Venue
- The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2008-09-22
- Pages
- 295-308
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- W2127137699
- Cited by
- 84
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- 32
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 61 · 2018: 1 · 2015: 3
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- 1.10
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- en
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Poetry Analysis and Criticism
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Renaissance Literature and Culture
- Keywords
- metaphor, poetic figures, poetic devices, figurative language, poetics
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