The Intellectual Tradition in the Old Testament (1974 Whybray), book

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The Intellectual Tradition in the Old Testament (1974) is a book by Roger Norman Whybray.

Editions

Published in Berlin, Germany, and New York, NY: DeGruyter, 1974 (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 135).

Contents

Chapter I: The problem -- Chapter II: The "wise" in Israel -- I. "Wisdom" as intelligence -- II. A professional class? -- A. The "wise man" as counsellor -- 1. "Wise Men" at foreign courts -- 2. "Wise men" at Israelite courts -- a. Historical narratives -- b. Isaiah -- c. Jeremiah -- 3. Conclusions -- B. The "wise man" as teacher -- 1. General considerations -- 2. Schools in Israel? -- 3. The hakam in Proverbs -- 4. "Teacher" in Biblical Hebrew -- 5. The hakam in Job, Ecclesiastes and the Psalms -- C. The "wise man" as author -- Chapter III: Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes and their authors -- I. Proverbs -- II. Job -- III. Ecclesiastes -- Chapter IV: The intellectual tradition in the Old Testament -- I. Methods for identifying the intellectual tradition -- A. Subject-matter -- B. Form -- C. Vocabulary -- II. Criteria for determining the terminology of the intellectual tradition -- III. The distribution of the root hkm in the Old Testament -- A. The occurrences of hkm -- B. Evaluation of the occurrences -- C. Analysis of significant occurrences -- 1. The Joseph story -- 2. The introductory section of Deuteronomy -- 3. The song of Moses -- 4. The succession narrative -- 5. The history of Solomon -- 6. Psalms -- 7. I Isaiah -- 8. Jeremiah -- 9. Ezekiel 28 -- 10. Daniel -- D. Non-occurrences of hkm -- 1. Narratives -- a. Gen 1-36 -- i. The primeval history (ch. 1-11) -- ii. The patriarchal stories (ch. 12-36) -- b. Exodus and Numbers -- c. Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings -- d. Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah -- e. Other narrative books -- 2. Laws -- 3. Psalms and Lamentations -- 4. The prophetical books -- 5. The Song of Solomon -- IV. Other characteristic terminology -- A. Criteria -- B. Analysis -- 1. Words occurring only in Proverbs, Job and/or Ecclesiastes, but occurring occasionally in other Old Testament traditions -- A note on nakoah -- 4. Words apparently exclusive to the intellectual tradition -- V. Conclusions -- A. Passages already designated as belonging to the intellectual tradition on the basis of the occurrence of hkm -- B. Passages to be added to the list of those belonging to the intellectual tradition -- C. Results of the terminological investigation

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