Gendered biblical metaphors (as discussed by Løland 2008, Løland 2022, and Clives 2022) play a pivotal role in shaping gender archetypes, cultural commonplaces, and the social and religious norms that influenced early Christian authors (Cerioni 2024). This presentation examines the intertextual dynamics of these metaphors, focusing on how early Christian authors navigated the process of moving from source to target meanings, with the help of principles of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980).