Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period
Angaben zur Quelle:
51,4-5 (2020) 457-486
Keywords:
Theon, Aelius,
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Judith (Apocryphal book) Comparative studies
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Education in post-biblical literature
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Prayer in post-biblical literature
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Education, Greek
Abstract:
This article examines Judith’s prayer in chapter 9 of the book of Judith from the perspective of the guidelines on speech-in-character found in Aelius Theon’s Progymnasmata (mid/end of the first century CE). According to the guidelines, it is important for an author of prose to achieve correspondence between the literary persona and the actual speech-in-character. This article examines the extent to which Judith’s prayer in chapter 9 observes Theon’s guidelines, as well as the theological implications of this.
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