The Social World of the Sages : An Introduction to Israelite and Jewish Wisdom Literature /

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Author / Creator:	Sneed, Mark R., author.
Imprint:	Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2015]
Description:	xvii, 450 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	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.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10318206

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ISBN:	9781451470369 1451470363
Notes:	Includes bibliographical reference (pages 397-421) and index.
Summary:	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. Maps and illustrations include. From back cover

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements and Dedication
Maps, Illustrations, Figures, and Sidebars
Abbreviations
1. The Nature of Wisdom and Its Practitioners
Defining Wisdom
The Semantic Domain of Wisdom
Two Broad Kinds of Wisdom
Who Were the Sages?
2. The World and Worldview of the Wise: An Anthropological Approach
Geography and Climate of Ancient Palestine
Israelite Society
Economy of Ancient Israel
The Ancient Israelite Worldview
3. Scribalism in Egypt and Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian Scribalism
Egptian Scribalism
Summary
4. Western Periphery Scribalism
The Western Periphery
Important Sites
The Amarna Letters
Canaanite Literature and Mythology
Summary
5. Istaelite Scribalism and the Place of Wisdom Literature Within It
Writing in the Second Millennium BCE
The Emergence of the Alphabet
Scribalism and Literacy in Ancient Isracl
Yoram Cohen and Late Bronze Age Wisdom Literature
Paul-Alain Beaulieu and Babylonian Wisdom Literature
The Place of Wisdom Literature within the Israelite Scribal Curriculum
Conclusion
6. The Wisdom Corpus as a Mode of Literature
Genres
Generic Worlds versus Worldviews
Biblical Genres and Their Social Setting
The Elusive Nature of Genres
The Instability of Genres
Economy of Genres
Conclusion
7. The Poetics, Axiology, and Rhetoric of Wisdom Literature
Wisdom Literature as Poetry
What is Hebrew Poetry?
The Aphorism as the Primary Genre of the Wisdom Literature
The Weighing of Values: A Structural Approach
Disjointed Proverbs
Paradoxes
The Rhetoric of Wisdom
Summary
8. Social World of the Sages
Honor and Shame in Israelite Society
The Social Class of the Sages
The Sages as Intellectuals
Women and Wisdom
Summary
9. The Book of Proverbs
Structure
Clusters and Twice-Told Proverbs
Authorship
Date
Relationship between Proverbs 22:17-24:22 and the Instruction of Amencmope
Intended Audience
Sub-Genres
Demotic Egyptian Sentences
Other Special Genres
10. The Book of Job
Structure
Integreity
Genre
Authorship and Date
Job and Popular Culture
Ancient Near Eastern Parallesls
Important Themes
Honor and Job
God versus Job
11. Ecclesiastes
Structure
Authorship and Audience
Date
Qohelet's Idiosyncratic Use of Language
The Meaning of Hebel
Qohelet's Ethical System: Hedging One's Bets
Honor and Qohelet
Comparative Literature
12. Sirach and Sapientia
Judaism and Hellenism
Ben Sira
Wisdom of Solomon or Sapientia
13. Wisdom Psalms and the Dead Sea Scroll Wisdom Literature
The Outer Limits of the Wisdom Tradition
Wisdom Psalms
Dead Sea Scroll Wisdom Literature
Works Consulted
Index of Scripture Passages
Index of Names and Subjects

The Social World of the Sages : An Introduction to Israelite and Jewish Wisdom Literature /

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