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Janus Sayings: A Linking Device in Qoheleth’s Discourse
Ist Teil von
Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft, 2016-03, Vol.128 (1), p.115-128
Ort / Verlag
Berlin: De Gruyter
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
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Qoheleth’s apparent lack of internal coherence was not lost on the ancient rabbis, and is still a recurring issue in modern scholarship. Attempts at both structural and thematic reconstructions of the shape of the Ecclesiastes text are popular amongst modern scholars, but no real agreement has been reached. Scholars are divided: there are those who assume a self-contained intellectual work with a progressive inner structure, and those who believe that Qoheleth is a loose collection of separate units.
The main concern of this paper is to discern a rhetorical phenomenon labelled a Janus saying, i.e. an aphorism that looks forward and backward, both structurally and thematically, and to evaluate its syntactical and thematic setting within Qoheleth’s teaching as a linking device.