The Rings of the Lord
Examining the ring compositions that recent studies claim to have discovered in Numbers and Judges, the article argues that in both cases the reconstructions involve questionable treatment of the text’s literary divisions and especially of the alleged and actual parallels between them. This, in turn...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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| In: |
Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2016, Volume: 66, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-44 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Numeri
/ Judges
/ Textual structure
/ Ring (General term)
/ Symmetry
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Numbers
Judges
literary structure
ring composition
intratextuality
chiasmus
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| Online Access: |
Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Examining the ring compositions that recent studies claim to have discovered in Numbers and Judges, the article argues that in both cases the reconstructions involve questionable treatment of the text’s literary divisions and especially of the alleged and actual parallels between them. This, in turn, places a question mark over the entire quest for book-scale symmetric literary structures in the Hebrew Bible. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
| Contains: | In: Vetus Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12301223 |