Numerical Sayings in the Literatures of the Ancient Near East, in the Bible, in the Book of Ben-Sira and in Rabbinic Literature
This paper follows the use of numbers from the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern literature, through the book of Ben-Sira, and ultimately to the Rabbinic literature. We show that the Rabbis were familiar with the Biblical use of numbers as rhetorical devices and used numbers in the same ways that the B...
| Published in: | The review of rabbinic Judaism |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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| In: |
The review of rabbinic Judaism
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| Further subjects: | B
Numerical sayings
Ben Sira
Rabbinic Literature
Biblical Rhetoric
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | This paper follows the use of numbers from the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern literature, through the book of Ben-Sira, and ultimately to the Rabbinic literature. We show that the Rabbis were familiar with the Biblical use of numbers as rhetorical devices and used numbers in the same ways that the Bible did. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0704 |
| Contains: | In: The review of rabbinic Judaism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700704-12341305 |