Solomon's Judgment: The Meta-Riddle
In the biblical story of Solomon’s Judgment (1 Kgs 3,16-28), after the question of how the king can determine which woman is the true mother, a further question arises: Which woman turned out to be the true mother — the plaintiff or the defendant? This study attempts to do four things: first, confir...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Biblica
Year: 2021, Volume: 102, Issue: 1, Pages: 30-44 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Solomon Israel, King
/ Riddles
/ Textual criticism
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bibel. Könige, 1., 3,16-28
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| Summary: | In the biblical story of Solomon’s Judgment (1 Kgs 3,16-28), after the question of how the king can determine which woman is the true mother, a further question arises: Which woman turned out to be the true mother — the plaintiff or the defendant? This study attempts to do four things: first, confirm that the latter question is a deliberate feature of the story and is thus a meta-riddle that illustrates the biblical authors’ highly sophisticated management of ambiguity; second, present the interpretation history pertaining to this riddle; third, solve the riddle; and fourth, show the effect of textual criticism on it. |
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| ISSN: | 2385-2062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/BIB.102.1.3289352 |