The Oxford Handbook of Wisdom and the Bible (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kynes, Will

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of leading scholars presents reflections on both wisdom as a general concept throughout history and cultures, as well as the contested nature of the category of Wisdom Literature. The first half of the collection explores wisdom more generally with essays on its relationship to skill, epistemology, virtue, theology, and order. Wisdom is examined in a number of different contexts, such as historically in the Hebrew Bible and its related cultures, in Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as in Patristic and Rabbinic interpretation. Additionally, wisdom is examined in its continuing relevance in Islamic, Jewish, and Christian thought, as well as from feminist, environmental, and other contextual perspectives. The second half of the volume considers "Wisdom Literature" as a category. Scholars address its relation to the Solomonic Collection, its social setting, literary genres, chronological development, and theology. Wisdom Literature's relation to other biblical literature (law, history, prophecy, apocalyptic, and the broad question of "Wisdom influence") is then discussed before separate chapters on the texts commonly associated with the category. Contributors take a variety of approaches to the current debates surrounding the viability and value of Wisdom Literature as a category and its proper relationship to the concept of wisdom in the Hebrew Bible. Though the organization of the volume highlights the independence of wisdom as concept from "Wisdom Literature" as a category, seeking to counter the lack of attention given to this question in the traditional approach, the inclusion of both topics together in the same volume reflects their continued interconnection. As such, this handbook both represents the current state of Wisdom scholarship and sets the stage for future developments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190661281
• Artikelnr.: 60992968

Autorenporträt

Will Kynes is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Samford University. He is the author of An Obituary for "Wisdom Literature": The Birth, Death, and Intertextual Reintegration of a Biblical Corpus and My Psalm Has Turned into Weeping: Job's Dialogue with the Psalms, which received the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2015. He has also edited, with Katharine Dell, Reading Job Intertextually, Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually, and Reading Proverbs Intertextually.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Wisdom and Wisdom Literature: Past, Present, and Future
* Will Kynes (Samford University)
* PART I. THE CONCEPT OF WISDOM IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
* 2. Advice: Wisdom, Skill, and Success
* Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale Divinity School)
* 3. Epistemology: Wisdom, Knowledge, and Revelation
* Annette Schellenberg (University of Vienna)
* 4. Virtue and Its Limits in the Wisdom Corpus: Character Formation,
Disruption, and Transformation
* William P. Brown (Columbia Theological Seminary)
* 5. Theology: Creation, Wisdom, and Covenant
* Raymond C. Van Leeuwen (Eastern University)
* 6. Order: Wisdom, Retribution, and Skepticism
* Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger (University of Vienna)
* PART II. THE CONCEPT OF WISDOM IN RELATED CULTURES
* 7. Wisdom in Egypt
* Joachim Quack (Heidelberg University)
* 8. Mesopotamian Wisdom Literature
* Yoram Cohen (Tel Aviv University) and Nathan Wasserman (Hebrew
University)
* 9. Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Jewish Interpretation
* Arjen Bakker (University of Oxford)
* 10. Wisdom in Dialogue with Greek Civilization
* Michael C. Legaspi (Penn State University)
* 11. Wisdom in the New Testament
* Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn (Regent College)
* 12. Wisdom in Patristic Interpretation: Scriptural and Cosmic Unity
in Athanasius' Exegesis of Proverbs 8:22
* Susannah Ticciati (King's College London)
* 13. Wisdom in Rabbinic Interpretation
* Amram Tropper (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
* PART III. THE CONCEPT OF WISDOM IN THE MODERN WORLD
* 14. Wisdom in the Qur'an and the Islamic Tradition
* U. Isra Yazicioglu (St. Joseph's University)
* 15. Wisdom in Jewish Theology
* Jonathan Schofer (University of Texas-Austin)
* 16. Wisdom in Christian Theology
* Paul S. Fiddes (University of Oxford)
* 17. Personified Wisdom and Feminist Theologies
* Christine Roy Yoder (Columbia Theological Seminary)
* 18. Wisdom in Nature
* Norman Habel
* 19. The Pervasiveness of Wisdom in (Con)texts
* John Ahn (Howard University School of Divinity)
* PART IV. THE CATEGORY OF WISDOM LITERATURE
* 20. Solomon and the Solomonic Collection
* Katharine J. Dell (University of Cambridge)
* 21. The Social Setting of Wisdom Literature
* Mark Sneed (Lubbock Christian College)
* 22. Literary Genres of Old Testament Wisdom
* Markus Witte (Humboldt-University in Berlin)
* 23. The Chronological Development of Wisdom Literature
* Markus Saur (University of Kiel)
* 24. Theology of Wisdom
* Tremper Longman III (Westmont College)
* PART V. WISDOM LITERATURE AND OTHER LITERATURE
* 25. Wisdom Influence
* John L. McLaughlin (University of St. Michael's College)
* 26. Law and Wisdom Literature
* Jonathan P. Burnside (Bristol University)
* 27. History and Wisdom Literature
* Suzanna R. Millar (University of Edinburgh)
* 28. Prophecy and Wisdom Literature
* Mark J. Boda (McMaster Divinity College)
* 29. Apocalyptic and Wisdom Literature
* Bennie H. Reynolds III (Milsaps College)
* PART VI. TEXTS
* 30. Proverbs
* Samuel E. Balentine (Union Presbyterian Seminary)
* 31. Ecclesiastes
* Tova L. Forti (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
* 32. Job
* Scott C. Jones (Covenant College)
* 33. Song of Songs
* Anselm C. Hagedorn (University of Osnabrück)
* 34. Wisdom Psalms
* W. H. Bellinger, Jr. (Baylor University)
* 35. Ben Sira
* Benjamin G. Wright (Lehigh University)
* 36. Wisdom of Solomon
* James Aitken (University of Cambridge) and Ekaterina Matusova
(University of Tübingen)
* 37. The Pursuit of Wisdom at Qumran: Assessing the Classification
"Wisdom Literature" and Its Application to the Dead Sea Scrolls
* Matthew Goff (Florida State University)