
Ryan O’Dowd—Wisdom Literature and Commentaries
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How Does the English Translation of Proverbs Create Micro Narratives Through Law?
Asnot Bartore, as an Israeli scholar who talks about the narratizing of law and Hebrew scripture. She actually shows how no other legal codes in the ancient Near East do this thing. And so it's all creating, like you said, creating micro narratives through law. So I wonder, sorry, that was just a diatribe. Yeah, no, that's good because you guys had, you know, Robert Alter on, not long ago, and this new big translation.
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