Tracing Sapiential traditions in ancient Judaism

Tracing Sapiential traditions in ancient Judaism /

"This volume is intended to problematize and challenge current conceptions of the category of "Wisdom" and to reconsider the scope, breadth and Nachleben of ancient Jewish Sapiential traditions. It considers the formal features and conceptual underpinnings of wisdom throughout the cor...

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Other Authors: Najman, Hindy (Editor), Rey, Jean-Sébastien (Editor), Tigchelaar, Eibert J. C. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Series:Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 174.
Subjects:
Wisdom literature > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Wisdom literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. / Hindy Najman, Jean-Sébastien Rey, Eibert Tigchelaar
  • Is "wisdom literature" a useful category? / Stuart Weeks
  • The theme of long-range planning in the Joseph narrative and some Second Temple Period writings / James Kugel
  • A reflection on the nature of wisdom : from Psalm 1 to Mesopotamian traditions / Stéphanie Anthonioz
  • Spiritual formation in Hellenistic Jewish wisdom teaching / Elisa Uusimäki
  • Ben Sira and Hellenistic literature in Greek / Benjamin G. Wright III
  • Sage as prophet? Allusion and reconfiguration in Ben Sira and other Second Temple Wisdom texts / Samuel L. Adams
  • Sages and saints : continuous study and transformation in Musar le-Mevin and Serekh ha-Yahad / Arjen Bakker
  • Searching for wisdom in and beyond 4QInstruction / Matthew Goff
  • The simple bare necessities : is Pss. Sol. 5 a wisdom prayer? / Patrick Pouchelle
  • Pirqé Avot and wisdom tradition / Maurice Gilbert, S.J.
  • The wisdom tradition in rabbinic literature and Mishnah Avot / Ishay Rosen-Zvi
  • Manuals of mantic wisdom : from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Cairo Genizah / Gideon Bohak.

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