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Was There a Wisdom Tradition?: New Prospects in Israelite Wisdom Studies (Ancient Israel and Its Literature Book 23)

Mark R. Sneed

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Description:Essential reading for scholars and students in wisdom studies This collection of essays explores questions that challenge the traditional notion of a wisdom tradition among the Israelite literati, such as: Is the wisdom literature a genre or mode of literature or do we need new terminology? Who were the tradents? Is there such a thing as a “wisdom scribe” and what would that look like? Did the scribes who composed wisdom literature also have a hand in producing the other “traditions,” such as the priestly, prophetic, and apocalyptic, as well as other non-sapiential works? Were Israelite sages open to non-sapiential forms of knowledge in their conceptualization of wisdom? The contributors are Katharine Dell, Tova Forti, Michael V. Fox, Mark Hamilton, Raik Heckl, Will Kynes, Douglas Miller, Markus Saur, Annette Schellenberg, Nili Shupak, Mark R. Sneed, and Stuart Weeks. Features: Recent genre theory in distinction from traditional form criticism Ancient Near Eastern comparative material A balanced collection that includes essays that seriously challenge and affirm the consensus view, as well as those that reconfigure it Mark R. Sneed is Professor of Bible at Lubbock Christian University. He is editor of Concepts of Class in Ancient Israel (Scholars Press) and author of The Politics of Pessimism in Ecclesiastes: A Social-Science Approach (Society of Biblical Literature).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Was There a Wisdom Tradition?: New Prospects in Israelite Wisdom Studies (Ancient Israel and Its Literature Book 23). To get started finding Was There a Wisdom Tradition?: New Prospects in Israelite Wisdom Studies (Ancient Israel and Its Literature Book 23), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Essential reading for scholars and students in wisdom studies This collection of essays explores questions that challenge the traditional notion of a wisdom tradition among the Israelite literati, such as: Is the wisdom literature a genre or mode of literature or do we need new terminology? Who were the tradents? Is there such a thing as a “wisdom scribe” and what would that look like? Did the scribes who composed wisdom literature also have a hand in producing the other “traditions,” such as the priestly, prophetic, and apocalyptic, as well as other non-sapiential works? Were Israelite sages open to non-sapiential forms of knowledge in their conceptualization of wisdom? The contributors are Katharine Dell, Tova Forti, Michael V. Fox, Mark Hamilton, Raik Heckl, Will Kynes, Douglas Miller, Markus Saur, Annette Schellenberg, Nili Shupak, Mark R. Sneed, and Stuart Weeks. Features: Recent genre theory in distinction from traditional form criticism Ancient Near Eastern comparative material A balanced collection that includes essays that seriously challenge and affirm the consensus view, as well as those that reconfigure it Mark R. Sneed is Professor of Bible at Lubbock Christian University. He is editor of Concepts of Class in Ancient Israel (Scholars Press) and author of The Politics of Pessimism in Ecclesiastes: A Social-Science Approach (Society of Biblical Literature).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Was There a Wisdom Tradition?: New Prospects in Israelite Wisdom Studies (Ancient Israel and Its Literature Book 23). To get started finding Was There a Wisdom Tradition?: New Prospects in Israelite Wisdom Studies (Ancient Israel and Its Literature Book 23), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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