JESUS IS LIGHT: THE MEANING OF LIGHT IN THE GOSPEL OF …

the contemporary background of the book affected the author’s use of these metaphors. ... George Beasley-Murray and D. A. Carson primarily make connections to metaphors of divine light in the OT. ... In Conceptual Metaphor Theory, metaphors are understood to be more than simply a substitution of one word for another.

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