Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
133,2 (2021) 208-224
Keywords:
Bible Comparative studies
;
Bible. Criticism, Redaction
;
Wisdom literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Assyro-Babylonian literature Relation to the Bible
Abstract:
This paper examines redactional theories regarding the development of the Book of Proverbs from a comparative perspective. Building on the methodology known as Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism, the paper explores patterns of development and redaction in the Mesopotamian proverb collection The Instructions of Shuruppak, including growth of collections, editorial use of opening and concluding formulas, and religiously-oriented redaction. These, in turn, serve as an illustration for very similar processes hypothesized by Biblicists regarding the development of biblical wisdom collections.
DOI:
10.1515/zaw-2021-2005
URL:
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