The Book of the Prophet Jonah through the Lens of the Wisdom Literature: The Case of the Memra “On Nineveh and Jonah” (Ephrem the Syrian?)

The Book of the Prophet Jonah through the Lens of the Wisdom Literature: The Case of the Memra “On Nineveh and Jonah” (Ephrem the Syrian?)Филаретовский альманахSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/89LQBA3X/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Sofya VladimirovnaFomichevaThe Book of the Prophet Jonah through the Lens of the Wisdom Literature: The Case of the Memra “On Nineveh and Jonah” (Ephrem the Syrian?)http://syriaca.org/cbss/89LQBA3Xhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/89LQBA3Xhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/89LQBA3XФиларетовский альманах2020249-26The paper is devoted to the Memra “On Nineveh and Jona” attributed to the great Syrian poet-theologian Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373). On the example of the fi ctive speech of the King of Nineveh the study demonstrates the use of the Wisdom literature and Wisdom motifs as a frame of the Memra. Th e author shows that the method of Wisdom literature, i.e., the search for the analogies to the actual events in the past, gives the possibility to express the correspondent heuristic pattern in the Syriac work, while the dichotomy of “two paths”: the path of the “wicked” and the one of the “righteous” is used as a frame for the opposition of the “righteous” Ninevites and the “wicked” Jews. A similar usage of Wisdom motifs as a cognitive frame appears in the authentical Ephrem’s works that could contribute to the question of the authorship of this Memra or at least testify of the common tradition of writers. Fomicheva, Sofya Vladimirovna. “The Book of the Prophet Jonah through the Lens of the Wisdom Literature: The Case of the Memra ‘On Nineveh and Jonah’ (Ephrem the Syrian?).” Филаретовский альманах 20 (2024): 9–26. Sofya Vladimirovna Fomicheva, The Book of the Prophet Jonah through the Lens of the Wisdom Literature: The Case of the Memra ‘On Nineveh and Jonah’ (Ephrem the Syrian?), Филаретовский альманах 20 (2024): 9–26.