The social world of the sages : an introduction to Israelite and Jewish wisdom literature / Mark R. Sneed.
Publication details: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©2015.Description: xvii, 450 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781451470369
- Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Dead Sea scrolls
- Bible. Old Testament
- Dead Sea scrolls
- Wisdom literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Wisdom literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Wisdom literature
- Hebräisch
- Weisheitsliteratur
- Bible / Old Testament / Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Dead Sea scrolls
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| BS1455 M82 2002 The making of sages : | BS1455 P41 1977 Wisdom and cult : a critical analysis of the views of cult in the wisdom literatures of Israel and the ancient Near East / | BS1455 R54 2017 The Christ of wisdom : a redemptive-historical exploration of the Wisdom books of the Old Testament / | BS1455 Sn2 2015 The social world of the sages : an introduction to Israelite and Jewish wisdom literature / | BS1456 G98 2012 The wisdom of God : seeing Jesus in the Psalms and wisdom books / | BS1465.3 Al2 1983 c.2 Proverbs : | BS1465.3 Al2 1983 c.3 Proverbs : |
Includes bibliographical reference (pages 397-421) and indexes.
The nature of wisdom and its practitioners -- The world and worldview of the wise: an anthropological approach -- Scribalism in Egypt and Mesopotamia -- Western periphery scribalism -- Israelite scribalism and the place of wisdom literature within it -- The wisdom corpus as a mode of literature -- The poetics, axiology, and rhetoric of wisdom literature -- Social world of the sages -- The book of Proverbs -- The book of Job -- Ecclesiastes -- Sirach and Sapientia -- Wisdom Psalms and the Dead Sea Scroll wisdom literature.
"Is there evidence for a distinct 'wisdom tradition' in ancient Israel? Mark R. Sneed redefines the wisdom literature as a loosely cohering collection of books that educated scribal apprentices in moral instruction. Sneed discusses the data for scribal culture and pedagogy in the ancient Near East, suggesting that wisdom literature was meant to complement, not to compete with, other modes of literature in the Hebrew Bible. The result is a surprising new picture of the authors and tradents of the wisdom literature"--
