A high-profile and authoritative volume in which a broad range of leading scholars in the field assess the current "state of the art" in the study of both Wisdom Literature as a category of texts in the Hebrew Bible and as a concept more generally. This particularly timely handbook captures the field at a time in which a plethora of new questions are being asked about Wisdom Literature and spans the gap between that cutting-edge scholarship and standard textbook expositions.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1. Wisdom and Wisdom Literature: Past, Present, and Future
- Will Kynes (Samford University)
- PART I. THE CONCEPT OF WISDOM IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
- 2. Advice: Wisdom, Skill, and Success
- Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale Divinity School)
- 3. Epistemology: Wisdom, Knowledge, and Revelation
- Annette Schellenberg (University of Vienna)
- 4. Virtue and Its Limits in the Wisdom Corpus: Character Formation, Disruption, and Transformation
- William P. Brown (Columbia Theological Seminary)
- 5. Theology: Creation, Wisdom, and Covenant
- Raymond C. Van Leeuwen (Eastern University)
- 6. Order: Wisdom, Retribution, and Skepticism
- Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger (University of Vienna)
- PART II. THE CONCEPT OF WISDOM IN RELATED CULTURES
- 7. Wisdom in Egypt
- Joachim Quack (Heidelberg University)
- 8. Mesopotamian Wisdom Literature
- Yoram Cohen (Tel Aviv University) and Nathan Wasserman (Hebrew University)
- 9. Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Jewish Interpretation
- Arjen Bakker (University of Oxford)
- 10. Wisdom in Dialogue with Greek Civilization
- Michael C. Legaspi (Penn State University)
- 11. Wisdom in the New Testament
- Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn (Regent College)
- 12. Wisdom in Patristic Interpretation: Scriptural and Cosmic Unity in Athanasius' Exegesis of Proverbs 8:22
- Susannah Ticciati (King's College London)
- 13. Wisdom in Rabbinic Interpretation
- Amram Tropper (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
- PART III. THE CONCEPT OF WISDOM IN THE MODERN WORLD
- 14. Wisdom in the Qur'an and the Islamic Tradition
- U. Isra Yazicioglu (St. Joseph's University)
- 15. Wisdom in Jewish Theology
- Jonathan Schofer (University of Texas-Austin)
- 16. Wisdom in Christian Theology
- Paul S. Fiddes (University of Oxford)
- 17. Personified Wisdom and Feminist Theologies
- Christine Roy Yoder (Columbia Theological Seminary)
- 18. Wisdom in Nature
- Norman Habel
- 19. The Pervasiveness of Wisdom in (Con)texts
- John Ahn (Howard University School of Divinity)
- PART IV. THE CATEGORY OF WISDOM LITERATURE
- 20. Solomon and the Solomonic Collection
- Katharine J. Dell (University of Cambridge)
- 21. The Social Setting of Wisdom Literature
- Mark Sneed (Lubbock Christian College)
- 22. Literary Genres of Old Testament Wisdom
- Markus Witte (Humboldt-University in Berlin)
- 23. The Chronological Development of Wisdom Literature
- Markus Saur (University of Kiel)
- 24. Theology of Wisdom
- Tremper Longman III (Westmont College)
- PART V. WISDOM LITERATURE AND OTHER LITERATURE
- 25. Wisdom Influence
- John L. McLaughlin (University of St. Michael's College)
- 26. Law and Wisdom Literature
- Jonathan P. Burnside (Bristol University)
- 27. History and Wisdom Literature
- Suzanna R. Millar (University of Edinburgh)
- 28. Prophecy and Wisdom Literature
- Mark J. Boda (McMaster Divinity College)
- 29. Apocalyptic and Wisdom Literature
- Bennie H. Reynolds III (Milsaps College)
- PART VI. TEXTS
- 30. Proverbs
- Samuel E. Balentine (Union Presbyterian Seminary)
- 31. Ecclesiastes
- Tova L. Forti (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
- 32. Job
- Scott C. Jones (Covenant College)
- 33. Song of Songs
- Anselm C. Hagedorn (University of Osnabrück)
- 34. Wisdom Psalms
- W. H. Bellinger, Jr. (Baylor University)
- 35. Ben Sira
- Benjamin G. Wright (Lehigh University)
- 36. Wisdom of Solomon
- James Aitken (University of Cambridge) and Ekaterina Matusova (University of Tübingen)
- 37. The Pursuit of Wisdom at Qumran: Assessing the Classification "Wisdom Literature" and Its Application to the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Matthew Goff (Florida State University)