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Record W4413652265 · doi:10.1177/03090892251350701

Ezekiel 29.6b–7 and metaphorical uses of canes in the Hebrew Bible

2025· article· en· W4413652265 on OpenAlexaff
Jeremy Schipper

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal for the Study of the Old Testament · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicBiblical Studies and Interpretation
Canadian institutionsEastern Ontario Training Board
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHebrew BiblePhilosophyLiteratureHebrewArtLinguisticsTheologyHistoryBiblical studies

Abstract

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This article argues that Ezekiel 29.6b–7 reflects an underappreciated metaphorical depiction of a cane, and that we can find metaphors involving canes elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible with Ezek. 29.6b–7 containing the most explicit example. These metaphors can be used to articulate warnings about the unreliability of alleged allies as well as the reliability of Yahweh. Other metaphors for God in the Hebrew Bible may be more familiar, but the metaphor discussed in this article suggests the need for further attention not only to the textual metaphorization of injured or disabled bodies but also to the objects that people with injuries or disabilities would have used to support themselves in the ancient world.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.019

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.023
Scholarly communication0.0030.004
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.050
GPT teacher head0.299
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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