Aesop and Jotham's Parable of the Trees (Judges 9:8-15)
Recent scholarship has entertained the possibility that Jotham's Parable of the Trees (Judg 9:8-15) is derived from the Greek text of one of Aesop's Fables (Perry 262). This article refutes this notion, tracing the dependence of Aesop's fable on one Septuagint tradition, which itself...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2019, Volume: 69, Issue: 1, Pages: 81-94 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Judge 9,8-15
/ Old Testament
/ Äsopische Fabel
/ Trees
/ Parable (Literature)
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament TB Antiquity |
| Further subjects: | B
Hebrew Bible
B jotham B Aesop B Parable B Fable B Judges B Old Testament |
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| Summary: | Recent scholarship has entertained the possibility that Jotham's Parable of the Trees (Judg 9:8-15) is derived from the Greek text of one of Aesop's Fables (Perry 262). This article refutes this notion, tracing the dependence of Aesop's fable on one Septuagint tradition, which itself is a translation of the Hebrew. The article goes on to propose a pre-exilic setting for the biblical fable, based not on its foregrounded opinion of monarchy, but on its background assumptions of deity. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Vetus Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12341350 |