Making Sense of the Sapiential Body.
Making Sense of the Sapiential Body.

A Reading of the Sense Organs in Proverbs

Summary/Abstract: In the book of Proverbs, body metaphors are plentiful. Conceived as an invitation to an assumed literal reading of a text presenting a doctrine of wisdom in a language abounding in images of the body, this paper is a challenge to discern Hebrew mechanisms of representing corporeality by means of philological investigation. The target is to set strategies of reading the body in the text by focusing on the sense organs. This exercise rewards by the approach to the human body it reveals and contributes to the reconstruction of the worldview encapsulated in the Old Hebrew language.

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