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Nature Imagery in Biblical Wisdom
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Nature Imagery in Biblical Wisdom

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Theologies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2021) | Viewed by 4506

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Andrew E. Steinmann

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Department of Theology and Foreign Languages, Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, IL 60305 USA
Interests: Genesis; Samuel; Ezra-Nehemiah; Proverbs; Daniel; biblical chronology; Hebrew and Aramaic grammar

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Biblical wisdom literature employs much imagery drawn from nature, including floral, faunal, astral, and meteorological imagery. However, apart from a few studies of floral and faunal references in Song of Songs and scattered comments in biblical commentaries, this commonplace in wisdom writings has seldom been explored. In this issue, we hope to collect essays that look at nature imagery in biblical wisdom books, including the apocryphal/deuterocanonical books of Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon. We are soliciting papers that examine nature imagery in a particular book or a larger section of a book as well as papers that compare nature imagery across more than one wisdom book. It is hoped that a variety of papers that examine this issue will yield a more varied and inclusive view of nature imagery in biblical wisdom.

Prof. Dr. Andrew E. Steinmann
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • biblical wisdom
  • Proverbs
  • job
  • Qoheleth/Ecclesiastes
  • Sirach
  • Wisdom of Solomon
  • Wisdom Psalms
  • nature imagery

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He Is Like a Tree: Arboreal Imagery for Humans in Biblical Wisdom Literature
by Andrew E. Steinmann
Religions 2021, 12(10), 804; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12100804 - 26 Sep 2021
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Arboreal imagery used to describe human life and circumstances is fairly common in the Hebrew Bible’s wisdom literature. This study examines the varied uses of comparisons between trees and humans in several wisdom psalms, in Job, and in Song of Songs. It is [...] Read more.
Arboreal imagery used to describe human life and circumstances is fairly common in the Hebrew Bible’s wisdom literature. This study examines the varied uses of comparisons between trees and humans in several wisdom psalms, in Job, and in Song of Songs. It is concluded that this imagery was adaptable and malleable enough to serve the sages’ purposes in teaching moral and ethical values through vivid descriptions of trees and their various characteristics. Full article
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Lurking Lions and Hidden Herds: Concealed Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible
by Scott B. Noegel and Corinna E. Nichols
Religions 2021, 12(7), 492; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12070492 - 30 Jun 2021
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This article presents evidence for a previously unrecognized literary device in the Book of Proverbs, in which texts that cluster references to animals also contain additional paronomastic allusions to animals. This device accords with the proverbs’ instruction to search for hidden knowledge, and [...] Read more.
This article presents evidence for a previously unrecognized literary device in the Book of Proverbs, in which texts that cluster references to animals also contain additional paronomastic allusions to animals. This device accords with the proverbs’ instruction to search for hidden knowledge, and resonates with their emphasis on the study of wild animals as a source of divine wisdom. The device also appears in psalms and prophecies, where it generally entails references to domesticated animals; here, the function appears to be rhetorical or performative. These groupings of concealed allusions to animals also add to the growing number of examples of the textual device of clustering. Full article
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