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A Research on the Studies of Proverbs 1-9 in Pursuit of the Methodology of Wisdom Literature Keun-Jo Ahn, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Christian Studies Hoseo University This paper aims to research current studies on Proverbs 1-9 to find methodologies in wisdom literature. Proverbs chs. 1-9 have been discussed as a theological wisdom corpus. Most of the scholarly works are categorized in six interpretive methods as follow. First, historical-critical analysis has been chiefly utilized in studies on those texts. It regards the corpus as a collection of various materials of wisdom tradition. However, Yahwism is considered as the unifying factor among the different resources. Second, religious studies has focused on the influence of the ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of neighboring culture upon Israelite wisdom. In particular, the personified wisdom is occasionally compared with Egyptian ma'at. Yet, originality of the Lady Wisdom in Proverbs is sustained. Third, literary approaches maintain the literary unity of the corpus and read it through rhetorical critical methods or inter-textual analyses. They highlight poetics of the proverbs 1-9 and incessant flow of the wisdom tradition from the Torah or the prophetic literature. Fourth, sociological studies on the corpus call interpreters' attention. We do not know the existence of schools in ancient Israel. Yet, some scholars discuss that there must be temple school or scribal family school in the second temple period of Israel. Wisdom literature itself derives from this Persian social matrix. Fifth, conceptual researches on the texts attempt to read the chapters 1-9 through a specific and coherent idea. Feminist critical approach on the corpus also shows a consistent rendering on those texts. Finally, integral readings put together both interests in the final shape of those texts and the compositional process of their formation. The textuality of the Proverbs 1-9 is the primary concern of the interpreters. However, integral readers also take a careful examination on the historical development of literary traditions in the corpus. They criticize the later theologization of Yahwism of the corpus. Instead, education and faith were identical elements of Israelite wisdom from the beginning.

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이 논문은 지혜문학의 방법론 모색을 위한 잠언서 1-9장의 연구동향에 대한 고찰이다. 이 논문에서는 역사비평적 분석으로부터 종교사적 연구, 문학비평적 접근과 사회학적 해석 그리고 개념적-신학적 이해와 통합적 읽기에 이르기까지 다양한 본문에 대한 논의들이 총망라되어 논의된다. 이 논문은 이로써 지혜문학연구의 방법론과 지혜신학의 확립을 위한 토대를 제공한다.