The "Powers" of Personification: Rhetorical Purpose in the Book of Wisdom and the Letter to the Romans
While
scholars have often found value in comparing Wisdom and Romans, a
comparison of the use of personification in these works has not yet been
made, despite the striking parallels between them. Furthermore, while
scholars have studied many of these personifications in detail, no one
has investigated an individual personification with respect to the
general use of the trope in the work. Instead, most of this research
focuses on a personification in relation to its nature as either a
rhetorical device or a supernatural power. The ?Powers of
Personification seeks to push beyond this debate by evaluating the
evidence in a different light that of its purpose within the overall use
of personification in the respective work and in comparison with
another piece of contemporaneous theological literature.
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