Abstract This article argues that metaphors are to be regarded as literary matters bearing multiple sense(s) in itself and evoking polyvalent meanings to its readers or hearers according to their own presuppositions. That basic observation is linked with methodological assumptions on intertextuality considered as a mutual relation of various texts to one another. When metaphors share an intertextual interplay with other metaphors their reading reveals an (mutual) influence of the literary environment of the context or contexts echoed. Looking at the term “daughter of Zion” these methodological assumptions are to be proofed. “Daughter of Zion”, read either in a context of salvation or in a context of doom, generates a wide range of divergent meanings already by itself As soon as the metaphor, by chance, undertakes an interplay with the other main significance it pushes each of the inherent characteristics into one or the other direction.
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