By Joseph R. Dodson
While students have usually discovered price in evaluating Wisdom and Romans, a comparability of using personification in those works has now not but been made, regardless of the amazing parallels among them. moreover, whereas students have studied lots of those personifications intimately, not anyone has investigated somebody personification with recognize to the overall use of the trope within the paintings. in its place, so much of this learn makes a speciality of a personification in terms of its nature as both a rhetorical equipment or a supernatural strength. The “Powers” of Personification seeks to push past this debate by way of comparing the proof in a unique gentle – that of its goal in the total use of personification within the respective paintings and compared to one other piece of contemporaneous theological literature.
This e-book proposes that the authors of knowledge and Romans hire personification to distance God from the foundation of evil, to deflect cognizance clear of the matter of righteous anguish to the confident aspects of the adventure, or to defer the answer for the pain of the righteous to the future.
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