Research Catalog

Title

Wiley Blackwell companion to wisdom literature / edited by Samuel L. Adams and Matthew J. Goff.

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Adams, Samuel L., 1970-
• Goff, Matthew J.

Description

xvii, 504 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"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 periods. The authors engage the topic from a variety of approaches, asking historical, literary, theological, and feminist questions (among others) about wisdom literature. The essays offer detailed and thorough studies of the relevant texts and also discuss a number of issues that are pertinent to the study of wisdom literature, such as the figure of Solomon, pedagogy in the ancient world, and the oral transmission of sayings. While many of the essays focus on antiquity and the context in which wisdom literature was produced, the contributors deal with later periods as well, including our own context, as in, for example, the essay by Rindge on sapiential themes in contemporary cinema. The cultural contexts that the contributors take into consideration include both the ancient world, as in the essays by Adams and Samet on, respectively, Egypt and Mesopotamia, and also settings that are traditionally not prominent in the study of wisdom literature, such as the essay by Masenya, which compares the book of Proverbs to didactic and gnomic traditions in Africa"--

Series Statement

The Wiley Blackwell companions to religion

Uniform Title

Wiley-Blackwell companions to religion.

Subjects

• Wisdom literature > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFF 20-1272

ISBN

• 9781119158233
• 1119158230
• 9781119158257 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781119158271 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019031710

OCLC

1110658046

Title

Wiley Blackwell companion to wisdom literature / edited by Samuel L. Adams and Matthew J. Goff.

Publisher

Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Wiley Blackwell companions to religion

Wiley-Blackwell companions to religion.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Adams, Samuel L., 1970- editor.

Goff, Matthew J., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Wiley blackwell companion to wisdom literature First edition. Hoboken : Wiley, 2019. 9781119158257 (DLC) 2019031711

Research Call Number

JFF 20-1272