Excerpt from The Hebrew Literature of Wisdom in the Light of to-Day: A Synthesis
Do you suppose Shakespeare meant all that?" was once asked of a teacher under whose interpretative reading the pages of the Dramatist seemed to glow with new power and suggestion. Pausing for an instant"s reflection, he replied, "My concern is with what Shakespeare means, not with what he meant." Such, in a single discriminating word, is the concern of the volume here submitted to the reader. Its aim is to unfold, in the literary idiom of to-day, what that strain of scripture utterance known to scholars as Wisdom means, for now and all time, as distinguished from, or rather as added to, what supposably it once meant.
In the sentiment that just now prevails in criticism, such inquiry after present values would seem almost to be under the necessity of apologizing for itself, lest it should run the risk of reading into the scripture text things not categorically there, or not consciously in the mind of the original writers.
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