The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Wisdom Literature PDF
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the cambridge companion to BIBLICAL WISDOM LITERATURE StudyofthewisdomliteratureintheHebrewBibleandinthecontem- poraryculturesoftheancientNearEasternworldisevolvingrapidlyas olddefinitionsandassumptionsarebeingquestioned.Scholarsarenow interrogating the role of oral culture, the rhetoric of teaching and didacticism, the understanding of genre and the relationship of these factorstothecorpusofwisdomwritings.Thescribalcultureinwhich wisdomliteraturearoseisalsounderinvestigation,alongsidequestions ofsocialcontextandcharacterformation.ThisCompanionservesasan essential guide to wisdom texts, a body of biblical literature with ancient origins that continue to have universal and timeless appeal. Reflecting new interpretive approaches, including virtue ethics and intertextuality, the volume includes essays by an international team of leading scholars. They engage with the texts, provide authoritative summariesofthestateofthefieldandopenuptoreaderstheexciting worldofbiblicalwisdom. KatharineJ.DellisProfessorofOldTestamentLiteratureandTheology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St Catharine's College. She is the author of The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context(CambridgeUniversityPress,2006),InterpretingEcclesiastes: ReadersOldandNew(Eisenbrauns,2013)andTheSolomonicCorpus of‘Wisdom’andItsInfluence(OxfordUniversityPress,2020). Suzanna R. Millar is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Hebrew Bible at the University of Edinburgh and assistant director of its Centre for TheologyandPublicIssues.SheistheauthorofGenreandOpenness inProverbs(SBLPress,2020). Arthur Jan Keefer is schoolmaster and chaplain in the Divinity DepartmentofEtonCollege.HeistheauthorofTheBookofProverbs andVirtueEthics(CambridgeUniversityPress,2020). cambridge companions to religion Thisisaseriesofcompanionstomajortopicsandkeyfiguresintheologyand religious studies. 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Dell UniversityofCambridge AssistantEditors Suzanna R. Millar UniversityofEdinburgh Arthur Jan Keefer EtonCollege UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05-06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108483162 doi:10.1017/9781108673082 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2022 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2022 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Dell,KatharineJ.(KatharineJulia),1961-editor.|Millar,SuzannaR.,editor.| Keefer,ArthurJan,1987-editor. Title:TheCambridgecompaniontobiblicalwisdomliterature/editedbyKatharineJ Dell,UniversityofCambridge,SuzannaRMillar,UniversityofEdinburgh,ArthurJan Keefer,EtonCollege. Description:Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY,USA:CambridgeUniversity Press,2022.|Series:Cambridgecompanionstoreligion|Includesbibliographical referencesandindex. identifiers:lccn2021044796(print)|lccn2021044797(ebook)|isbn9781108483162 (hardback)|isbn9781108716475(paperback)|isbn9781108673082(epub) subjects:LCSH:Wisdomliterature–Criticism,interpretation,etc. classification:lccbs1455.c362022(print)|lccBS1455(ebook)|ddc223–dc23 lcrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2021044796 lcebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2021044797 isbn978-1-108-48316-2Hardback isbn978-1-108-71647-5Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate Contents ListofContributors pageix Acknowledgement xi ListofAbbreviations xiii PartI TheContextofWisdomLiterature 1 Introduction 3 katharine j. dell, suzanna r. millar andarthur jan keefer 2 TheScopeofWisdomLiterature 13 tremper longman iii 3 TheMultipleGenresofWisdom 34 suzanna r. millar 4 TheLiteraryContext(s)andDevelopmentof WisdomLiteratureinAncientIsrael(with SpecialReferencetoProverbs) 57 knut m. heim 5 TheScribalWorld 76 mark sneed 6 TheologicalThemesinthe‘Wisdom Literature’:Proverbs,Job andEcclesiastes 96 katharine j. dell 7 TheSolomonicConnection:Solomonand WisdominKingsandChronicles 116 david firth PartII WisdomLiteratureintheHebrewBible 8 Proverbs 137 christopher b. ansberry 9 Job 162 will kynes vii viii contents 10 Ecclesiastes 184 mette bundvad 11 TheSongofSongs 200 jennifer l. andruska 12 WisdomPsalms 219 simon chi-chung cheung 13 Wisdom’sWiderResonance 239 michael c. legaspi PartIII WisdomLiteraturebeyondtheHebrewBible 14 BenSira 261 seth a. bledsoe 15 TheBookofWisdom 283 joachim schaper 16 WisdomatQumran 303 davida. skelton 17 EgyptianWisdom 323 michael v. fox and suzanna r. millar 18 TheSyro-PalestinianWisdomoftheLate BronzeAge 344 noga ayali-darshan 19 MesopotamianWisdom 366 paul-alain beaulieu PartIV ThemesintheWisdomLiterature 20 CreationintheWisdomLiterature 391 zolta´n schwa´b 21 RewardandRetribution 414 peter t. h. hatton 22 FromRebuketoTestimonytoProverb: Wisdom’sManyPedagogies 433 william p. brown 23 TheWisdomLiteratureand VirtueEthics 455 arthur jan keefer Bibliography 475 Index 511 Contributors JenniferL.Andruska UniversityofManchester ChristopherB.Ansberry GroveCityCollege NogaAyali-Darshan BarIlanUniversity Paul-AlainBeaulieu UniversityofToronto SethA.Bledsoe RadboudUniversity WilliamP.Brown ColumbiaTheologicalSeminary MetteBundvad UniversityofCopenhagen SimonChi-chungCheung ChinaGraduateSchoolofTheology KatharineJ.Dell UniversityofCambridge DavidFirth TrinityCollege MichaelV.Fox UniversityofWisconsin–Madison PeterT.H.Hatton BristolBaptistCollege KnutM.Heim DenverTheologicalSeminary ArthurJanKeefer EtonCollege ix
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