Between Wisdom and Torah: Discourses on Wisdom and Law in Second Temple Judaism

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Between Wisdom and Torah

Discourses on Wisdom and Law in Second Temple Judaism

Edited by: Jiseong James Kwon and Seth Bledsoe

Volume 51 in the series Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111069579

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About this book

Previous scholars have largely approached Wisdom and Torah in the Second Temple Period through a type of reception history, whereby the two concepts have been understood as signifiers of independent, earlier “biblical” streams of tradition that later came together in the Hellenistic and Roman eras, largely under the process of a so-called “torahization” of wisdom. Recent studies critiquing the nature of wisdom and wisdom literature as operative categories for understanding scribal cultures in early Judaism, as well as newer approaches to conceptualizing Torah and authorizing-compositional practices related to the Pentateuchal texts, however, have challenged the foundations on which the previous models of Wisdom and Torah rested. This volume, therefore, brings together several essays that aim to reexamine and rethink the ways we can describe the developments of texts categorized as “Wisdom” that proliferated during the Second Temple Period and whose contents point to an engagement with a “Torah” discourse. By asking anew the question of whether “Wisdom” was transformed by/into “Torah” during this period, this volume offers reformulations on the discursive space between Wisdom and Torah through analyzing new identifications, confluences, and transformations.

Author / Editor information

JiSeong J. Kwon, Nehemiah Institute for Christian Studies, Seoul, S. Korea, Seth A. Bledsoe, Radboud University, Netherlands.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgement Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Part I: Wisdom & Torah in Instructional Literature
Instructions and Torah in Proverbs 1–9: Assessing the Confluence of Torah and Wisdom in Proverbs JiSeong J. Kwon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Proverbs 28 and the Discourse on Wisdom and Torah in the Book of Proverbs Bernd U. Schipper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Ben Sira and His Grandson on Torah and Wisdom: Similar or Divergent Views? Pancratius C. Beentjes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Part II: Wisdom & Torah in Skeptical-Critical Discourse
“Things Too Wondrous” (Job 42:3): The Torah and the Limits of Knowledge in the Book of Job Tobias Häner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Failing to be Wise: The Case of Qohelet Stuart Weeks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Wisdom and Law in the Book of Wisdom: A New Type of Relationship Luca Mazzinghi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Sofia and Nomos in the Wisdom of Solomon Lydia Gore-Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Part III: Wisdom & Torah in Legal Discourse
Explaining the “Confluence” of Biblical Wisdom and Torah: An Anthropological and Rhetorical Approach Mark Sneed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
The Amalgamation of “Wisdom” in the Post-Deuteronomistic Deuteronomy of the Persian and Hellenistic Periods Eckart Otto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Law and Wisdom in the Epitaph of Abramos, Communal Magistrate (JIGRE 39 = SB 5765) Lindsey A. Davidson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Part IV: Wisdom & Torah in Poetic Reflection
The Song of Songs: Torah, Creation, Celebration, and Libertinism Torleif Elgvin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Wisdom and Torah in the Hodayot and the Great Psalms Scroll: The Place of Prayer in Understanding Some Early Jewish Pedagogy George J. Brooke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Part V: Wisdom & Torah in Narrative Imagination
The Question of Wisdom Influence in the Composition of the Joseph Narrative Thomas Römer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Ahiqar the “Patriarch”: Tobit’s Interpretation of the Wisdom of Ahiqar through a Torahizing Lens Seth A. Bledsoe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Index of Modern Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Index of Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Theolog/-innen, Judaist/-innen.
Pages
- Front matter: 22
- Main content: 393
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 3
- Tables: 1
- Coloured Tables: 1
Keywords: Wisdom literature; Torah; early Judaism; scribal discourses

eBook

Published: May 8, 2023
ISBN: 9783111069579

Hardcover

Published: May 8, 2023
ISBN: 9783111069319