The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature

Herausgeber: Adams, Samuel L; Goff, Matthew

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 175mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1043g
• ISBN-13: 9781119158233
• ISBN-10: 1119158230
• Artikelnr.: 56791313

Autorenporträt

Samuel L. Adams is the Mary Jane and John F. McNair Chair of Biblical Studies at Union Presbyterian Seminary. He received his PhD from Yale University in 2006. He is the author of monographs on wisdom literature and economics in the biblical world, and editor of the journal Interpretation. Matthew Goff is Professor in the Department of Religion at Florida State University. His research focuses on the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism. He has written extensively on the sapiential and apocalyptic literature of ancient Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xiv
Editors' Introduction 1
Samuel L. Adams and Matthew Goff
I. Texts 11
1 Proverbs 13
Jacqueline Vayntrub
2 Job 30
Davis Hankins
3 Ecclesiastes 49
Jennie Grillo
4 Psalms 67
William P. Brown
5 Sirach/Ben Sira 87
Bradley C. Gregory
6 Wisdom of Solomon 104
Randall D. Chesnutt
7 Wisdom Texts From the Dead Sea Scrolls 122
Elisa Uusimäki
8 Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes in the Septuagint (LXX) 139
Patrick Pouchelle
II. Themes 157
9 The Figure of Solomon 159
Blake A. Jurgens
10 Female Imagery in Wisdom Literature 177
Tova Forti
11 Scribes and Pedagogy in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism 195
Matthew Goff
12 God in Wisdom Literature 213
James L. Crenshaw
13 Jewish Wisdom in the Contest of Hellenistic Philosophy and Culture:
PseudöPhocylides and Philo of Alexandria 229
Michael Cover
14 Wisdom and Apocalypticism 248
Jason M. Zurawski
15 The Orality of Wisdom Literature 267
Timothy J. Sandoval
III. Antecedents 287
16 Ahiqar and Other Legendary Sages 289
Seth A. Bledsoe
17 Wisdom Literature in Egypt 310
Samuel L. Adams
18 Mesopotamian Wisdom 328
Nili Samet
IV. Reception 349
19 Wisdom in the New Testament 351
Benjamin Wold
20 Wisdom and the Rabbis 368
Ari Mermelstein
21 The Wisdom Tradition in Early Christianity through Late Antiquity 389
Carson Bay
22 Jewish Sapiential Traditions in the Nag Hammadi Library 412
Dylan M. Burns
23 The Sapiential Books in the Latin Middle Ages 429
Gilbert Dahan
24 The Reception History of Job 447
Mark Larrimore
25 Wisdom from African Proverbs Meets Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs 464
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)
26 Cinematic Wisdom: Film and Biblical Wisdom Literature 479
Matthew S. Rindge
Index 496