Overview
This study is on the figure אשה זדה and נכד׳ה, also commonly called the ‘Strange Woman’ in Proverbs 1-9. It is an attempt to understand the meaning which defines her, and the origin and development of her motif. The first part argues against defining her as a sexual predator, but as an ethnic foreigner according to the lexical studies of זד and נכד. It traces her origin within the Hebrew scripture, the legal documents and especially to the DtrH's portrayal of foreign women/wives. Hence, it distinguishes the two motifs: the motif of the adulteress and the motif of the foreign woman; the latter, which symbolizes the temptation to apostasy. The study will then go on to explain how the writer of Proverbs 1-9 employs this motif of the foreign woman in his poetic composition. The second part tracks the development of this motif through the subsequent Jewish Wisdom literature and observes how it changes and loses the ‘foreignness’ of her original motif in Eccl. 7:26; 4Q184; LXX Proverbs; Hebrew Ben Sira; Greek Ben Sira; and finally disappears in Wisdom of Solomon. It proffers to understand this gradual transformation against a background of social and religious change.
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Author: Nancy Nam Hoon Tan
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Volume: 381
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.464kg
ISBN: 9783110200638
ISBN 10: 3110200635
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 20 May 2008
Recommended Age: College Graduate Student
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Format: Hardback
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Reviews
"""[...] this is an engaging and well-researched monograph.""L.-S. Tiemeyer in: Book List - Society for Old Testament Study 2009 ""[Eine] Studie, die eindrucksvoll zeigt, wie die innerjudische Tradition die Exegese von Prov 1-9 erhellen kann.""A. C. Hagedorn in: ZAW 121/2009 ""A thouroughly worthwhile book, and a welcome addition to the literature.""David Nicoll in: New Directions 3/2009"
[...] this is an engaging and well-researched monograph. L.-S. Tiemeyer in: Book List - Society for Old Testament Study 2009 [Eine] Studie, die eindrucksvoll zeigt, wie die innerjudische Tradition die Exegese von Prov 1-9 erhellen kann. A. C. Hagedorn in: ZAW 121/2009 A thouroughly worthwhile book, and a welcome addition to the literature. David Nicoll in: New Directions 3/2009
[...] this is an engaging and well-researched monograph. L.-S. Tiemeyer in: Book List - Society for Old Testament Study 2009 [Eine] Studie, die eindrucksvoll zeigt, wie die innerj dische Tradition die Exegese von Prov 1-9 erhellen kann. A. C. Hagedorn in: ZAW 121/2009 A thouroughly worthwhile book, and a welcome addition to the literature. David Nicoll in: New Directions 3/2009
Author Information
Nancy Nam Hoon Tan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.
