A Cautionary Tale / Peter Hatton in Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 35/3 (March 2011)

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal for the Study of the Old Testament > 35/3 (March 2011) . - pp. 375-384. Titre : A Cautionary Tale : The Acts-Consequence ‘Construct’ Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Peter Hatton, Auteur Année de publication : 2011 Article en page(s) : pp. 375-384. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : In 1955 Klaus Koch asserted that the Old Testament, particularly its wisdom literature, has no concept of divine retribution and that humanity simply receives the appropriate fruit of the good or bad deeds we sow. This notion, the so-called acts—consequence construct, has become an important element in a paradigmatic approach to the wisdom books; one which attacks the sages of Proverbs as—strangely enough in view of Koch’s argument—invoking divine retribution to support their, supposedly, self-serving teachings. This article offers some critique of Koch’s original argument but focuses on the misleading way it was appropriated by English-speaking scholars. [article] A Cautionary Tale : The Acts-Consequence ‘Construct’ [texte imprimé] / Peter Hatton, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp. 375-384. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal for the Study of the Old Testament > 35/3 (March 2011) . - pp. 375-384. Résumé : In 1955 Klaus Koch asserted that the Old Testament, particularly its wisdom literature, has no concept of divine retribution and that humanity simply receives the appropriate fruit of the good or bad deeds we sow. This notion, the so-called acts—consequence construct, has become an important element in a paradigmatic approach to the wisdom books; one which attacks the sages of Proverbs as—strangely enough in view of Koch’s argument—invoking divine retribution to support their, supposedly, self-serving teachings. This article offers some critique of Koch’s original argument but focuses on the misleading way it was appropriated by English-speaking scholars.

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