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

The notion of a distinct "wisdom tradition" in ancient Israel has a long history--but does it have a basis in the evidence? Mark R. Sneed argues for a redefinition of the wisdom literature as a loosely cohering collection of books aimed at educating scribal apprentices in moral instruction...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sneed, Mark R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.