The Old Testament prophets did not hesitate to use the rhetorical
conventions accessible to them when delivering their sermons of
salvation and judgment. One source of comparison used frequently in
the prophets and widely throughout the ancient Near East is the
image of a tree. In Trees and Kings, William Osborne evaluates the
cultural and cognitive setting that potentially gave rise to this
figurative tree imagery, drawing on both comparative study with
ancient Near Eastern tree imagery and the cognitive-linguistic
approach to metaphor theory. Osborne examines tree metaphors that
appear in the texts of Israel's writing prophets, specifically
Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. He takes this material as largely
reflective of the Israelite prophetic tradition from the 8th–6th
centuries BC. Tree imagery in the Old Testament is certainly not
limited to these prophetic books, and this study takes many of
these texts into consideration in seeking to understand tree
imagery in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel better. The question is
rarely asked, why do the prophets often defer to the metaphorical
use of the tree? The goal of this study is to answer this important
question by comparing and contrasting tree metaphors in much of the
prophetic literature of the Old Testament with tree imagery and
metaphors encountered from the ancient Near East.
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