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The Cambridge companion to biblical wisdom literature / edited by Katharine J. Dell, University of Cambridge ; assistant editors, Suzanna R. Millar, University of Edinburgh, Arthur Jan Keefer, Eton College.

"Study of the wisdom literature in the Hebrew Bible and the contemporary cultures in the ancient Near Eastern world is evolving rapidly as old definitions and assumptions are questioned. Scholars are now interrogating the role of oral culture, the rhetoric of teaching and didacticism, the under...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge Core)
Other Authors: Dell, Katharine J. (Katharine Julia), 1961- (Editor), Millar, Suzanna R. (Editor), Keefer, Arthur Jan, 1987- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Series:Cambridge companions to religion.
Subjects:
Wisdom literature > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Wisdom literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • The context of wisdom literature: The scope of wisdom literature / Tremper Longman III
  • The multiple genres of wisdom / Suzanna R. Millar
  • The literary context(s) and development of wisdom literature in ancient Israel (with special reference to Proverbs) / Knut M. Heim
  • The scribal world / Mark Sneed
  • Theological themes in the 'wisdom literature:' Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes / Katharine J. Dell
  • The solominic connection: Solomon and wisdom in Kings and Chronicles / David Firth
  • Wisdom literature in the Hebrew Bible: Proverbs / Christopher B. Ansberry
  • Job / Will Kynes
  • Ecclesiastes / Mette Bundvad
  • The Song of Songs / Jennifer L. Andruska
  • Wisdom Psalms / Simon Chi-Chung Cheung
  • Wisdom's wider resonance / Michael C. Legaspi
  • Wisdom literature beyond the Hebrew Bible: Ben Sira / Seth A. Bledsoe
  • The book of wisdom / Joachim Schaper
  • Wisdom at Qumran / David A. Skelton
  • Egyptian wisdom / Michael V. Fox and Suzanna R. Millar
  • The Syro-Palestinian wisdom of the late Bronze age / Noga Ayali-Darshan
  • Mesopotamian wisdom / Paul-Alain Beaulieu
  • Themes in the wisdom literature: Creation in the wisdom literature / Zoltán Schwáb
  • Reward and retribution / Peter T. H. Hatton
  • From rebuke to testimony to Proverb: Wisdom's many pedagogies / William P. Brown
  • The wisdom literature and virtue ethics / Arthur Jan Keefer.

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