Abstract
A number of passages in Psalms employ the figure of speech, or perhaps more precisely, the figure of thought, that when the psalmist is in need or in trouble, he is in a tight place, and his salvation consists in being brought out into the open. The article reviews this motif and makes use of methodological approaches from cognitive linguistics, such as the “Conceptual Metaphor Theory” associated with George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, and the “Conceptual Integration Networks” approach or “Blending Theory” introduced by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, to analyse in more detail the use of this motif in Psalm 18. In conclusion, it is brought up for consideration whether the “cognitive turn” in Biblical scholarship can be fruitfully utilized for the benefit of the sub-discipline of Old Testament Theology, and whether this might imply a re-evaluation of previously discarded ideas about the interrelatedness of language and thought.
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