The "foreignness" of the foreign woman in Proverbs 1-9 : a study of the origin and development of a Biblical motif / Nancy Nam Hoon Tan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tan, Nancy Nam Hoon.

Series:

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 381.

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 0934-2575 ; Bd. 381

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the Bible.

Noncitizens--Biblical teaching.

Noncitizens.

Strangers--Biblical teaching.

Strangers.

Bible. O.T. Proverbs I-IX--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter De Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement

Abbreviations

Chapter One: Interpretations of the "Foreignness" of the Foreign Woman in Proverbs 1-9

Chapter Two: "Foreignness" and the "Foreign Wives" in Early Post Exilic Texts

Chapter Three: The Motif of "Foreign Wives" in Deuteronomistic Literature

Chapter Four: The Motif of the Foreign Woman in Proverbs 1-9

Chapter Five: Direct References to the Motif of the Foreign Woman in Other Wisdom Literature

Chapter Six: The Motif of the Foreign Woman in the Apocryphal Wisdom Literature

Conclusions and Implications

Appendix: Other Foreign Women and Intermarriages in the OT

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-201) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611993290

9781281993298

1281993298

9783110209839

3110209837

OCLC:

476276671