From Wisdom Inhabiting Bodies to Words Inhabiting Reality.Representations of Corporeality in Jewish Sapiential Literature
From Wisdom Inhabiting Bodies to Words Inhabiting Reality.Representations of Corporeality in Jewish Sapiential Literature

Summary/Abstract: In support of reflections on the spiritually unifying standpoint on the human being held to be the hallmark of Jewish wisdom tradition, the analysis put forward is an exercise of looking, by way of philological interpretation, into the book of Proverbs and discussing the representations of corporeality in it in relation to the sapiential component. A most representative piece of Jewish sapiential literature, foreign from any type of dichotomy, assuming that the world of appearance is real and that wisdom can be found in all creation, the writing is investigated to the conclusion that it describes the body of the sage or finder of wisdom as being fully and totally inhabited by wisdom. The sage, whose portrait is slowly being constructed from bits and pieces, appears as an initiate in the secret connection between words of wisdom and reality, hereby putting together a most unique representation of reality as one inhabited by words.

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