Was there a wisdom tradition?
Subtitle: new prospects in Israelite wisdom studies
By: edited by Mark R. Sneed
Series: Society of Biblical Literature. Ancient Israel and its literature -- number 23; Ancient Israel and its literature -- no. 23.
Publisher: SBL Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781628370997; 9781628371017; 9781628371000
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Wisdom literature
Description: "This collection of essays explores questions that challenge the traditional notion of a wisdom tradition among the Israelite literati, such as: Is the wisdom literature a genre or mode of literature or do we need new terminology? Who were the tradents? Is there such a thing as a "wisdom scribe" and what would that look like? Did the scribes who composed wisdom literature also have a hand in producing the other "traditions," such as the priestly, prophetic, and apocalyptic, as well as other non-sapiential works? Were Israelite sages open to non-sapiential forms of knowledge in their conceptualization of wisdom?"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Genre theory and the wisdom tradition.; title: The modern scholarly wisdom tradition and the threat of pan-sapientialism: a case report / Will Kynes; title: "Grasping after the wind": the elusive attempt to define and delimit wisdom / Mark R. Sneed; title: Three theses on wisdom / Michael V. Fox; title: Wisdom in the canon: discerning the early intuition / Douglas Miller; title: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater: on the distinctness of the sapiential understanding of the world / Annette Schellenberg; title: Deciding the boundaries of wisdom: applying the concept of family resemblance / Katharine J. Dell; title: Wisdom, form, and genre / Stuart Weeks; title: part 2. Case studies.; title: Where can wisdom be found?: new perspectives on the wisdom psalms / Markus Saur; title: Gattung and Sitz im Leben: methodological vagueness in defining wisdom psalms / Tova Forti; title: How wisdom texts became part of the canon of the Hebrew Bible / Raik Heckl; title: Riddles and parables, traditions and texts: Ezekielian perspectives on Israelite wisdom traditions / Mark W. Hamilton; title: part 3. Ancient Near Eastern comparison.; title: The contribution of Egyptian wisdom to the study of the biblical wisdom literature / Nili Shupak.