Susanna and the Elders: A Hebrew Legend with Egyptian Wordplay?
The Egyptian word seshen (“water lily,” a cognate of the Hebrew name Susanna, written with hieroglyphs depicting a door bolt, a garden pool, and water), may have inspired the setting of the Theodotion form of Daniel 13:1–27. This may constitute a novel type of “bilingual visual paronomasia,” and poi...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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2021
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Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Ano: 2021, Volume: 30, Número: 3, Páginas: 166-171 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Bibel. Daniel 13
/ Susanna, Personagem bíblico
/ Egito (Altertum, Motiv)
/ Theodotion, Interpres Veteris Testamenti ca. 2. Jh.
B Paronomásia |
| Classificações IxTheo: | BH Judaísmo HB Antigo Testamento |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Old Greek Bible
B Egyptian hieroglyphs B Hebrew Bible B Paronomasia B Book of Daniel B Theodotion B Susanna |
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| Resumo: | The Egyptian word seshen (“water lily,” a cognate of the Hebrew name Susanna, written with hieroglyphs depicting a door bolt, a garden pool, and water), may have inspired the setting of the Theodotion form of Daniel 13:1–27. This may constitute a novel type of “bilingual visual paronomasia,” and point to an Egyptian source of the details of Susanna’s bath, absent in the earliest (Old Greek) form of the biblical text of Daniel. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5286 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0951820721995765 |