Nature Imagery in Biblical Wisdom
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Theologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2021) | Viewed by 5547
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biblical wisdom literature employs much imagery drawn from nature, including floral, faunal, astral, and meteorological imagery. However, apart from a few studies of floral and faunal references in Song of Songs and scattered comments in biblical commentaries, this commonplace in wisdom writings has seldom been explored. In this issue, we hope to collect essays that look at nature imagery in biblical wisdom books, including the apocryphal/deuterocanonical books of Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon. We are soliciting papers that examine nature imagery in a particular book or a larger section of a book as well as papers that compare nature imagery across more than one wisdom book. It is hoped that a variety of papers that examine this issue will yield a more varied and inclusive view of nature imagery in biblical wisdom.
Prof. Dr. Andrew E. Steinmann
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biblical wisdom
- Proverbs
- job
- Qoheleth/Ecclesiastes
- Sirach
- Wisdom of Solomon
- Wisdom Psalms
- nature imagery
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