دانلود کتاب Einzelspruch und Sammlung: Komposition im Buch der Sprichwörter Kapitel 10-15

Ruth Scoralick has attempted to do for Proverbs 10-15 what Raymond Van Leeuwen earlier did for Proverbs 25-27 in his 1988 book Context and Meaning in Proverbs 25-27 to see how there might be principles of ordering within apparently chaotic collections. In this revised dissertation presented in 1993 to the Philosophisch-theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen in Frankfort am Main, Scoralick concentrates on the surface and not the meaning, and she attacks many of the major assumptions about what constitutes a collection and how one might tell where a collection begins and ends. Scoralick's first section studies Proverbs 10-15 as a separate collection (pp. 11-87); in the second section she studies the ordering of verses within those passages (pp. 91-243). She delays consideration of thematic contexts for an eventual commentary (p. 181). Her review of the literature is devastating in its frankness and honesty. For exampie, she shows Udo Skladny's 1962 statistics to be flawed and unrepresentative of the phenomena because they derive from categories that are not clearly defined. These statistics have been relied on by many othenvise responsible commentators (pp. 29-33).Scoralick debates the question of where the end of the collection in chapters 10-15 comes and decides finally that it does not correspond to the chapter division, but rather to the verse before, 15:32, arguing that 15:33 goes better with what follows (pp. 78-84). She also worries about whether the collection can be defined by its plethora of antonymous parallels, especially the wise and foolish and the just and the evil. She cautions against a speedy equation of all negative terms and all positive terms, and she concludes that this characteristic structure of verses is common in the first part of the collection, but not in the rest (pp. 62-75).