{"id":11200,"date":"2026-06-06T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblica.sk\/archive\/stbisl-18-1-2026\/sbslror9837\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T06:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:26:02","slug":"sbslror9837","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biblica.sk\/en\/archive\/stbisl-18-1-2026\/sbslror9837\/","title":{"rendered":"Zacharias KOTZ\u00c9: Taming the Evil Eye: Ironic Reframing of \u02bfayin r\u0101\u02bf\u0101h in the Hebrew Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"11200\" class=\"elementor elementor-11200\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90e160d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"90e160d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f3f443 elementor-widget 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This article examines the idiom&#8217;s occurrences in Proverbs 23:6; 28:22 and Deuteronomy 15:9; 28:54.56. Using cognitive-linguistic metaphor analysis, social-scientific insights into envy in limited-good societies, and textual criticism, it demonstrates a consistent ironic reframing: the evil eye, traditionally emanating from envious outsiders in Mesopotamian and Egyptian traditions, is redirected in biblical texts to describe insiders who withhold resources \u2013 transforming a supernatural threat into an ethical critique of stinginess and hard-heartedness. This inversion likely reflects deliberate editorial strategy, motivated by fear of non-Yahwistic powers (paralleling YHWH-name avoidance) and Deuteronomistic neutralisation of magical elements. 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