Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Vetus Testamentum
Angaben zur Quelle:
70,2 (2020) 245-269
Keywords:
Bible Comparative studies
;
Oral communication
;
Soqotri language Texts
;
Wisdom literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Abstract:
The article investigates the thematic and stylistic parallelism between Old Testament books (primarily, but not exclusively, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs) and the oral poetry in the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri. Striking similarities between the two corpora, noted already by the father of Soqotri studies in the West, David Heinrich Müller, are investigated in depth on the basis of the author’s fieldwork experience on the island.
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