Shane Williamson’s Reviews > Old Testament Conceptual Metaphors and the Christology of Luke's Gospel > Status Update

Luke's HORN metaphor is mapping and...re-mapping antecedent conceptual metaphors from an OT/Jewish "encyclopedia." The most obvious mapping is that of DEFEAT OF ENEMIES, which Jesus accomplishes as κέρας...There are some indications that the framing of Luke's metaphor in terms of the exodus tradition and Ps. 18 could suggest that the prerogatives ascribed to God as HORN are being re-mapped to Jesus as well. (78)

I will argue that some of the ways the Gospel of Luke appropriates OT/Jewish conceptual metaphors is consistent with an understanding of Jesus as an eschatological deliverer-figure (in some cases specifically "messianic"). Others, however, seem to suggest a divine Christology: Jesus' identity is being conceptualized through metaphors that are normatively mapped in such ways that express God's identity alone. (34)

We think, not just communicate, in metaphors. A metaphorical utterance is, in other words, the written or spoken expression of a concept in our minds that itself is structured as a metaphor. (20)