Outsiders In The Holy Land; Proverbs and survival in Bedouin culture From: The Jewish Week | Date: August 12, 2005| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Brawarsky, Sandee
The Jewish Week
08-12-2005
To eavesdrop on a culture, listen to its proverbs. One of the oldest
literary genres, proverbs are compressed moral and practical instructions,
philosophical sound bites, passed across the chain of generations.

"Short sentences drawn from long experience," wrote Miguel de Cervantes,
who gave Sancho Panza, Don Quixote's sidekick, a head full of proverbs that
would spill into his conversation, often tangled together, lending his own
version of wisdom.

For an ancient non-literate culture like the nomadic Bedouins, proverbs
have been the prime vehicle for ...

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