Shane Williamson’s Reviews > The Torah/Law Is a Journey: Using Cognitive and Culturally Oriented Linguistics to Interpret and Translate Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible > Status Update

However, יהוה תורה the Torah/Law of the Lord is not just a law in the legal sense: as a set of commandments and teachings it narrates the biblical account of God's will and God's deeds. It is therefore, in the broadest sense, both the totality and the promulga-tion of God's revelation. (36)

The construction of the meaning of metaphorical expressions in biblical texts often involves intertextuality. Vehicles include not only individual verb expressions, phrases, or whole passages of text, but also, as we will see below, generic narrative structures. (29)