Consecutive Authorship: Imagining the Production and Transmission of the Book of Proverbs in Late Antiquity
This article explores late antique Christian conceptualizations of the authorship and transmission of Proverbs in selected works of biblical interpretation preserved in Syriac. In Prov 25:1, the Judean king Hezekiah and his friends are described as writing or transmitting proverbs by Solomon. The ar...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Early christianity
Année: 2025, Volume: 16, Numéro: 1, Pages: 89-104 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Bibel. Sprichwörter
/ Bibel. Sprichwörter 25,1
/ Hiskija, Juda, König
/ Salomo, Israel, König
/ Syriaque
/ Herméneutique
/ Scribe
/ Critique textuelle
/ Rédaction
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| Classifications IxTheo: | HB Ancien Testament HD Judaïsme ancien TB Antiquité |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Textual Transmission
B commentary traditions B Authorship B Hezekiah B Solomon B Syriac |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Résumé: | This article explores late antique Christian conceptualizations of the authorship and transmission of Proverbs in selected works of biblical interpretation preserved in Syriac. In Prov 25:1, the Judean king Hezekiah and his friends are described as writing or transmitting proverbs by Solomon. The article argues that to late antique interpreters, Hezekiah's involvement did not raise questions about the authenticity or attribution of Proverbs but rather about its textual history. It is shown how they used the figure of Hezekiah to develop different views on the production and transmission of Proverbs. Commentators presented the book of Proverbs as the result of consecutive compositional practices, in which selecting, ordering, salvaging, and restoring played central roles. |
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| ISSN: | 1868-8020 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Early christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/ec-2025-0007 |
