Wiley Blackwell companion to wisdom literature /
"This handbook is designed to give the reader, whether an advanced scholar or an undergraduate student, a basic introduction to and overview of wisdom literature. The volume will also provide an impression of how this material has been read and interpreted in various contexts and historical per...
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken :
John Wiley & Sons,
2020.
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| Series: | Wiley-Blackwell companions to religion.
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Table of Contents:
- I. Texts. Proverbs / Jacqueline Vayntrub
- Job / Davis Hankins
- Ecclesiastes / Jennie Grillo
- Psalms / William P. Brown
- Sirach/Ben Sira / Bradley C. Gregory
- Wisdom of Solomon / Randall D. Chesnutt
- Wisdom texts from the Dead Sea scrolls / Elisa Uusimäki
- Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes in the Septuagint (LXX) / Patrick Pouchelle
- II. Themes. The figure of Solomon / Blake A. Jurgens
- Female imagery in wisdom literature / Tova Forti
- Scribes and pedagogy in ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism / Matthew Goff
- God in wisdom literature / James L. Crenshaw
- Jewish wisdom in the contest of Hellenistic philosophy and culture: Pseudo-Phocylides and Philo of Alexandria / Michael Cover
- Wisdom and apocalypticism / Jason M. Zurawski
- The orality of wisdom literature / Timothy J. Sandoval
- III. Antecedents. Ahiqar and other legendary sages / Seth A. Bledsoe
- Wisdom literature in Egypt / Samuel L. Adams
- Mesopotamian wisdom / Nili Samet
- IV. Reception. Wisdom in the New Testament / Benjamin Wold
- Wisdom and the rabbis / Ari Mermelstein
- The wisdom tradition in early Christianity through late antiquity / Carson Bay
- Jewish sapiential traditions in the Nag Hammadi library / Dylan M. Burns
- The sapiential books in the Latin Middle Ages / Gilbert Dahan
- The reception history of Job / Mark Larrimore
- Wisdom from African proverbs meets wisdom from the book of Proverbs / Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)
- Cinematic wisdom: film and biblical wisdom literature / Matthew S. Rindge.
