Affirming Less as More: Scholarly Engagements with Aphoristic Rhetoric
Focused on perceptible gains and trends in biblical scholarship during the past two decades as it engages the self-contained aphorisms that abound in Proverbs 10–29, this essay offers a critical discussion of diverse insights advanced by three categories of scholars: those whose comprehensive studie...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2004
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2004, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 205-242 |
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| Summary: | Focused on perceptible gains and trends in biblical scholarship during the past two decades as it engages the self-contained aphorisms that abound in Proverbs 10–29, this essay offers a critical discussion of diverse insights advanced by three categories of scholars: those whose comprehensive studies in Biblical Hebrew poetry target the free-standing proverb (Kugel, Berlin, Alter, Watson, Alonso Schökel, Gillingham, and Fokkelman); those whose monographs and articles center in more specific ways on the literary dimensions of the sapiential couplet (Williams, Murphy,McCreesh, Perry, Storøy, Wehrle, Salisbury, Martin, Forti, and Nel); and those who address issues that bear upon traditional sayings and proverb performance (Fontaine, Westermann, and Golka). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/030908920402900206 |