Illustrations
1.1 KKK Rally Sign, Charlottesville, VA, 8 July 2017. Photo credit: Jalane Schmidt 5
8.1 Reconstruction of Sir 35:26 141
Figures
8.1 The intricate textual situation of Sir 32:18 136-139
8.2 Tentative solution 140
Tables
3.1 Distinctive characteristics of “oral” and “written” cultures delineated by Wood in Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer (1775), schematized by Bauman and Briggs (2003) 35
3.2 Personages named in frames to ancient Near Eastern instruction texts 48