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Samuel L. Adams, and Matthew J. Goff (eds.), Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature (Chichester, West Sussex; Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2020).

Abstract

""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"--Publisher description.

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 (Ngwana Mphahlele) Cinematic wisdom: film and biblical wisdom literature / Matthew S. Rindge.

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