TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Isn't tHe Bride Too Beautiful?' the Case of Jeremiah 6.16-21
AU - Hoffman, Yair
PY - 1994/12
Y1 - 1994/12
N2 - ‘The bride is too beautiful’ is a folkloristic Jewish saying. Its original context is the man who, apprehensive of being talked into marriage, points out defects in each potential bride. When at last an apparently perfect woman is found, he denounces her as ‘too beautiful’. It is used meta phorically to indicate absurd reasoning which conceals the real motives of one's resentment. However, a too-beautiful bride might indeed be a hindrance rather than a guarantee of successful marriage. In such cases to argue that ‘the bride is too beautiful’ is not absurd; it is paradoxical.
AB - ‘The bride is too beautiful’ is a folkloristic Jewish saying. Its original context is the man who, apprehensive of being talked into marriage, points out defects in each potential bride. When at last an apparently perfect woman is found, he denounces her as ‘too beautiful’. It is used meta phorically to indicate absurd reasoning which conceals the real motives of one's resentment. However, a too-beautiful bride might indeed be a hindrance rather than a guarantee of successful marriage. In such cases to argue that ‘the bride is too beautiful’ is not absurd; it is paradoxical.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84972640442&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/030908929401906408
DO - 10.1177/030908929401906408
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AN - SCOPUS:84972640442
SN - 0309-0892
VL - 19
SP - 103
EP - 120
JO - Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
JF - Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
IS - 64
ER -