Ronit Nikolsky is Assistant Professor of Culture and Cognition at the University of Groningen, Netherlands.István Czachesz is Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Tromsø, Norway, and the review editor of the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion.Frederick S. Tappenden is Principal and Dean, and Professor of Theology at St. Stephen’s College at the University of Alberta, Canada.Tamás Biró is Senior Research Fellow at the Department for Assyriology and Hebrew at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, and an Associate Professor and Vice-Rector of the Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies, Budapest, Hungary.

• Notes on ContributorsPreface Introduction: Cognition, Evolution, and Biblical Exegesis, István Czachesz 1. Cognitive Science and Biblical Interpretation, István Czachesz (University of Tromsø, Norway) and Gerd Theissen (University of Heidelberg, Germany)2. Emotional Fear in Pentateuchal Legal Collections, Thomas Kazen (Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden)3. Liquid Life: Blood, Life, and Conceptual Metaphors In the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East, Anne Katrine De Hemmer Gudme (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 4. "To Love" in the Bible: a Cognitive-Evolutionary Approach, Ronit Nikolsky (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) 5. “The Glory of the Lord Has Risen Upon You”: Some Observations on the “Glory”-Language of Isaiah 56–66 Based on a Cognitive Semantic Approach, Marilyn E. Burton (Independent Researcher, UK) 6. The Influence of Categorization on Translation Meaning, Shelley Ashdown (Dallas International University, USA) 7. Imaging Resurrection: Toward an Image Schematic Understanding of Resurrection Beliefs in Second Temple Judaism, Frederick S. Tappenden (University of Alberta, Canada) 8. Liturgical Linguistics: Towards the Syntax of Communicating with the Super-Human Agent in Judaism, Tamás Biró (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary and University of Jewish Studies, Hungary) 9. Forgiveness of the Sinless: A Classic Contradiction in 1 John in the Light of Contemporary Forgiveness Research, Rikard Roitto (Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden) 10. Christian Beginnings and Cultural Evolution, István Czachesz (University of Tromsø, Norway) NotesBibliography Index

The editors of Language, Cognition, and Biblical Exegesis enlist an outstanding group of scholars—fluent in both the relevant religious and scientific literatures and languages—to assemble a splendid collection of essays that variously recruit the many methodological, theoretical, and empirical resources of cognitive linguistics, of conceptual metaphor theory, and of the cognitive and evolutionary sciences of religion to insightfully illuminate biblical texts—both Hebrew and Christian--and the cultural settings from which they arose.