Lurking Lions and Hidden Herds: Concealed Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible

This article presents evidence for a previously unrecognized literary device in the Book of Proverbs, which texts that cluster references to animals also contain additional paronomastic allusions animals. accords with proverbs’ instruction search hidden knowledge, and resonates their emphasis on study wild as source divine wisdom. The appears psalms prophecies, where it generally entails domesticated animals; here, function be rhetorical or performative. These groupings concealed add growing number examples textual clustering.