Introduction; Motivating Biblical Metaphors for God. Refining the Cognitive Model; Looking beyond the Tree in Jeremiah 17:5-8; "Don't think of a voice!". Divine Silence, Metaphor, and Mental Spaces in Selected Psalms of Lament; The Fruit of the Tree of Life. Ritual Interpretation of the Crucifixion in the Gospel of Philip; Pauline Rhetorical Invention. Seeing 1 Corinthians 6:12-7:7 through Conceptual Integration Theory; Sapiential Synesthesia. The Conceptual Blending of Light and Word in Ben Sira's Wisdom Instruction; The Cognitive Structures in Galatians 1:4.

Who Is in Charge?. Mental Space Analysis and Visualization in a Textual Study, Applied to 1 Samuel 28:3-25Cognitive Grammar at Work in Sodom and Gomorrah; 1 John 1:5-10: Conditionals and Performativity; Translating "Thinking" and "Believing" in the Bible. How Cognitive Linguistic Analysis Shows Increasing Subjectivity in Translations; List of Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index.

Language and cognition are interconnected, and cognitive linguistics offers methods for analysing how. Here, twelve scholars apply a range of cognitive linguistics methods: conceptual metaphor analysis, cognitive grammar, and the mental space blending and Basic Communicative Spaces Network models. Together, the essays represent ground-breaking and standard-setting work while each raises important interpretive questions for further exploration.