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Paul’s writings are laced with vivid images from the bustling New Testament world. To understand these metaphors, David J. Williams delves into that Greco-Roman world and uses ancient sources to explore a wide variety of topics, such as architecture, law, commerce, health care, and education. Williams studies this world in chapters with such titles as “Life in the City,” “Family Life,” “Slavery...

This is a book about metaphors. It is not a book about metaphor in the abstract, and it is not a philosophical discussion about the nature or function of metaphor as such. It is about the particular metaphors of a particular man—Paul. It has the practical interest of explaining them by describing the world from which they were drawn. In general, metaphor is a way of presenting a truth that is wholly or partly unknown by likening it to something that is known to the person or persons
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