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Was there a wisdom tradition? : new prospects in Israelite wisdom studies / edited by Mark R. Sneed.

Contributor(s): Sneed, Mark R [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Ancient Israel and its literature: no. 23.Publisher: Atlanta : SBL Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xi, 325 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781628370997; 1628370998Subject(s): Wisdom literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etcDDC classification: 223/.06 LOC classification: BS1455 | .W37 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Genre theory and the wisdom tradition. The modern scholarly wisdom tradition and the threat of pan-sapientialism: a case report / Will Kynes -- "Grasping after the wind": the elusive attempt to define and delimit wisdom / Mark R. Sneed -- Three theses on wisdom / Michael V. Fox -- Wisdom in the canon: discerning the early intuition / Douglas Miller -- Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater: on the distinctness of the sapiential understanding of the world / Annette Schellenberg -- Deciding the boundaries of wisdom: applying the concept of family resemblance / Katharine J. Dell -- Wisdom, form, and genre / Stuart Weeks -- Case studies. Where can wisdom be found? New perspectives on the wisdom psalms / Markus Saur -- Gattung and Sitz im Leben: methodological vagueness in defining wisdom psalms / Tova Forti -- How wisdom texts became part of the canon of the Hebrew Bible / Raik Heckl -- Riddles and parables, traditions and texts: Ezekielian perspectives on Israelite wisdom traditions / Mark W. Hamilton -- Ancient Near Eastern comparison. The contribution of Egyptian wisdom to the study of the biblical wisdom literature / Nili Shupak.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part 1. Genre theory and the wisdom tradition. The modern scholarly wisdom tradition and the threat of pan-sapientialism: a case report / Will Kynes -- "Grasping after the wind": the elusive attempt to define and delimit wisdom / Mark R. Sneed -- Three theses on wisdom / Michael V. Fox -- Wisdom in the canon: discerning the early intuition / Douglas Miller -- Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater: on the distinctness of the sapiential understanding of the world / Annette Schellenberg -- Deciding the boundaries of wisdom: applying the concept of family resemblance / Katharine J. Dell -- Wisdom, form, and genre / Stuart Weeks -- part 2. Case studies. Where can wisdom be found? New perspectives on the wisdom psalms / Markus Saur -- Gattung and Sitz im Leben: methodological vagueness in defining wisdom psalms / Tova Forti -- How wisdom texts became part of the canon of the Hebrew Bible / Raik Heckl -- Riddles and parables, traditions and texts: Ezekielian perspectives on Israelite wisdom traditions / Mark W. Hamilton -- part 3. Ancient Near Eastern comparison. The contribution of Egyptian wisdom to the study of the biblical wisdom literature / Nili Shupak.

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