By Roth
One of many contemporary accomplishments of Biblical scholarship is the systematic and distinctive description of the oral and literary styles present in the previous testomony. It was once Hermann Gunkel (1862-1932) who initiated the form-critical strategy, thereby including to the exegetical instruments of Biblical scholarship an tool which proves to be a good assist in the translation of the outdated testomony. Many new insights into the profile and personality of Biblical texts were made attainable, and background in addition to surroundings in lifetime of just about all oral and literary styles taking place within the outdated testomony were defined. the traditional introductions to the previous testomony endure witness to this and, even as, supply in concise shape the result of form-critical research.
The current examine is dedicated to an oral and literary development which doesn't take place often within the previous testomony yet which however merits awareness and specified research: the numerical asserting. the main regularly occurring examples of this style happen within the 30th bankruptcy of the e-book of Proverbs, the place a set of 5 numerical sayings is located (xxx 15-31).
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These are first attempts to order together enigmatic nature phenomena ... when like is put side by side with like, much is already gained, because then these phenomena lose their absolutely enigmatic character which they had when they were considered in isolation. Yet predsely this is wisdom: the desire for a penetrating rational enlightenment and ordering of the world in which man finds himself, the will to discover and to fix orders of the phenomena of human life as we11 as of nature". 1) It is rewarding to search the Old Testament in the light of this argument for texts which illustrate the desire of the human mind to understand its world.
GORDON, Introduetion to Gid Testament Times (Ventnor, N. J. 1953), p. 102. 3) For a detailed diseussion of this meaning cf. Wolfgang M. W. T. X (1960), pp. 401-404. 36 REFLECTlVE NUMERICAL SAYINGS enjoyed the privileges of the free and God-fearing Israelite (cf. Provo xü 11 a (=xxviii 19 a); xx 13; Jer. xliv 17). The phrase 'unloved woman', on the other hand, was a legal term and referred to the disHked wife who could not be divorced by her husband (cf. Deut. xxi 15-17; Gen. xxix 31, 33; Ecclus.
F. S. B. II, p. 253. 4) John BRIGHT, A History 01 Israel (Philadelphia 1959), p. 198. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum XIII 3 26 REFLECTIVE NUMERICAL SAYINGS This text is an independent unit, originally not connected with its present context. There can be no doubt concerning "the legendarymythical nature of the material" 1) and regarding the origin of this tradition in ancient Mesopotamia. 2) While the identification of the first two rivers is difficult, it is clear that all four rivers are real and not mythical rivers.