2023.11.08 | Oscar E. Jiménez. Metaphors in the Narrative of Ephesians 2:11–22: Motion towards Maximal Proximity and Higher Status. Linguistic Biblical Studies 20. Leiden: Brill, 2022. pp. xiii + 221.
Review by Kai Akagi, Rikkyo University.
Oscar E. Jiménez’s Metaphors in the Narrative of Ephesians 2:11–22: Motion towards Maximal Proximity and Higher Status is the published version of Jiménez’s PhD thesis completed at London School of Theology. The volume provides a reading of Ephesians 2:11–22, approaching this text from the two perspectives included in the volume’s title: metaphors and narrative. Specifically, Jiménez employs conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) to analyze and articulate the significance and function of metaphors in the text. At the same time, he approaches the text as a “narrative” consisting of a “drama” in three acts such that each part of Ephesians 2:11–22 may be considered as part of a progression integrally related to the other parts of the text.
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