TY - JOUR AU - Vermeulen, Karolien PY - 2017/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Body of Nineveh: The Conceptual Image of the City in Nahum 2–3 JF - The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures JA - JHS VL - 17 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.5508/jhs.2017.v17.a1 UR - https://jhsonline.org/index.php/jhs/article/view/29364 SP - AB - <p>Research on cities in the Hebrew Bible shows that urban spaces are often personified. This article argues that in the case of Nahum's Nineveh this personification is part of a conceptual metaphor, in which the city is depicted as a body. The same metaphor underlies other comparative devices in the text, which similarly share a corporeal focus. Together, these devices tell the story of a weakening city body, in a way that is both cognitively accessible as well as narratologically and communicatively efficient.</p> ER -