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- Title
Wisdom-literature in early modern England.
- Authors
Considine, John
- Abstract
Three books of the Hebrew Old Testament, those commonly called "Proverbs," "Job," and "Ecclesiastes," and two books of the larger canon of the Old Testament in Greek, those called "Sirach" and "Wisdom," have since the nineteenth century been called wisdom books. Morton Bloomfield argued in an article of 1968 that the kinds of texts which are described as wisdom-literature in Biblical and Near Eastern studies were also produced in early medieval England. Bloomfield said that wisdom literature consisted of proverbs, riddles, fables, anecdotes or exempla, dialogues, inventories, didactic rules, gnomes, charms and reflective poems.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; WISDOM literature (Bible); BLOOMFIELD, Morton W. (Morton Wilfred), 1913-1987; PROVERBS; ANECDOTES; LITERATURE
- Publication
Renaissance Studies, 1999, Vol 13, Issue 3, p325
- ISSN
0269-1213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1477-4658.1999.tb00081.x