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Between the four gospels, the Book of John provides a complete range of pastoral imagery models. John begins by witnessing the identity of Jesus and fore wording Jesus as the sacrificial lamb. His testimony, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1)...

It is important to remember that pastoral imagery surrounding Israel involvement in the narrative of shepherds and flocks throughout the wilderness is related to geographic locations and personal cultural chronicles. The wilderness life was an important period for the Israelites because that was the...

After studying the natural world of shepherds, you can appreciate the ways in which ancient civilizations used pastoral imagery to reflect ideas of nations and their kings/leaders. Shepherd language was used for a variety of gods and goddesses in diverse literary context throughout history with clea...

Metaphors began to take on the aptitude of the Near eastern civilization and to understand pastoral imagery, modern Bible readers needed to engage themselves in the sight, sound and smell of ancient shepherd life. Pastoralism was a widely visible and significant sector of all Near eastern societies ...

Chapter one states that the bible is a deep container loaded with a lot of ‘figure of speeches’ that contributes to effectiveness of the Old/New Testament conversations in history. However, states that these ‘figure of speeches’, better known as metaphors; have a long history originating bac...