Human-Nature Blends and the Parent-Child Relationship in Isaiah and Neo-Assyrian Prophecy

David Bosworth; Lucia Tosatto

doi:10.33182/aijls.v1i2.2085

Authors

David Bosworth The Catholic University of America
Lucia Tosatto Catholic University of America

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v1i2.2085

Keywords:

Isaiah, prophecy, Akkadian, nature, ecology, childhood, conceptual blending theory, metaphor

Abstract

Texts from Isaiah and the Neo-Assyrian prophetic corpus attest a range of blends between the natural and human worlds in the domain of parent-child relationships. This essay uses conceptual blending theory to analyze the integration of natural imagery with human and divine parents in both corpora. The results of this analysis reveal patterns in the use of nature to conceptualize parenthood and differences in the manner and extent to which each prophetic corpus draws on specific taxonomies within nature.

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Author Biographies

David Bosworth, The Catholic University of America

David Bosworth is Associate Professor of Old Testament at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He earned his Ph.D. in biblical studies from Catholic University in 2003 and taught at Barry University in Miami Shores, FL before returning to the Catholic University as faculty in 2008. His research focuses on emotion in the Bible, including two books and several articles on weeping.

Lucia Tosatto, Catholic University of America

Lucia Tosatto is a doctoral student in Biblical Studies at the Catholic University of America. She recieved an M.A. in Biblical Languages from the Graduate Theological Union in 2017 and her B.A. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame in 2013.