2026· Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel· Vol 15, pp. 403-425· 0 citations
Abstract
In the study of biblical proverbs, a comparison with demotic wisdom instructions, originating in Late Period and Graeco-Roman Egypt, has only recently become the focus of attention. In contrast to the older Egyptian tradition, the demotic sources do not form a unitary genre. Instead, some compositions arrange the sayings in thematic chapters (line 1), while others present wisdom in loose form (line 2). This article aims to unfold the complex inner structure and innovations visible in the first line of transition, which in recurring discursive and contrastive elements and an overarching religious interpretation possesses striking parallels to the biblical sources. A discussion of the sense and purpose of these compositional strategies establishes a starting point for further in-depth interdisciplinary discourses of both academic disciplines in the realm of wisdom.
In this wide-ranging collection of essays, a leading literary critic and intellectual examines classic English poetry, modern Jewish literature, the intersection of science and religion, and the fate of culture in a technological age. Whether the subject is the literary abilities of ChatGPT, the erotics of opera, the...
This article examines the intertextual framework that structures the opening chapters of Vitaliano Brancati’s Don Giovanni in Sicilia, focusing in particular on the parodic rewriting of the Don Juan myth, the libertine tradition and decadent aesthetics. Starting from the paratextual function of the title, understood as...
G. D'Angelo· Incontri: Rivista Europea di...· 0 citations
This essay compares the Buddhist classic the Diamond Sūtra to the oldest Christian gospel, the Gospel of Mark, in order to argue that both texts work up complex “theaters of conversion” in order to encourage readers to discard previous convictions about tradition (Buddhist or Jewish/proto-Christian) so as to take the t...
Focusing on Baldwin’s later works from the 1970s on, this article posits
that he began shaping an experimental nonfiction aesthetic that would allow him
to “sing” lyrically, diasporically, and discursively while
engaging in discourse with others. He improvised a means of enacting physically,
essayistically, and cin...
Walton M. Muyumba· James Baldwin Review· 0 citations
The most significant finding of this paper is the marked recession of the society-other lexical group in Denggao (登高, “Ascending the Heights”), a phenomenon that, within the scope of the literature reviewed for this study, has not been addressed in previous scholarship. This discovery enables a more precise account o...
S. Jang· The Society for Chinese Huma...· 0 citations
Forty years since Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza’s 1987 SBL Presidential Address, we see a retreat from reading ideology and a recommendation to emphasize reading pleasure by a number of prominent scholars in the fields specifically mentioned by Schüssler Fiorenza to describe the interdisciplinary turn in biblical stud...
