The notion that wisdom and apocalypticism represent fundamentally different and mutually exclusive categories of genre and worldview in early Jewish and Christian literature persists in current scholarship. The essays in this volume, the work of the Wisdom and Apocalypticism Group of the Society of Biblical Literature, challenge that generally held view as they explore the social locations and scholarly constructions of these literatures and discover an ancient reality of more porous categories and complex interrelationships. The volume draws on a broad range of Jewish and Christian texts, including 1 Enoch, Sirach, 4QInstruction, Psalms of Solomon, James, Revelation, and Barnabas.
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Benjamin G. Wright III is Professor of Religion Studies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He co-edited The Apocryphal Ezekiel (Society of Biblical Literature). He is editor of A Multiform Heritage: Studies on Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Robert A. Kraft and author of No Small Difference: Sirach’s Relationship to Its Hebrew Parent Text (both from Scholars Press). Lawrence M. Wills is Talbot Professor of Biblical Studies at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Recent books include Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology (Oxford), The Quest of the Historical Gospel (Routledge), The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World (Cornell), and The Jew in the Court of the Foreign King: Ancient Jewish Court Legends (Augsburg Fortress).
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Psalms of Solomon, Second Temple, Aramaic Levi, Letter of James, Book of the Watchers, Astronomical Book, Scholars Press, Dead Sea Scrolls, New York, Animal Apocalypse, Hebrew Bible, Book of Enoch, Wisdom of Solomon, New Testament, Epistle of Barnabas, Society of Biblical Literature, Epistle of James, Mosaic Torah, Seminar Papers, George Nickelsburg, Sheffield Academic Press, Richard Horsley, First Enoch, Near Eastern, Old Testament Wisdom New!
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raz nihyeh, generic compatibility, mantic wisdom, pedagogical ethos, seventy shepherds, sapiential texts, apocalyptic worldview, wisdom elements, apocalyptic texts, honor the priest, ethical admonitions, wisdom texts, apocalyptic literature, wisdom circles, city visions, economic critique, high priesthood, revealed wisdom, priestly aristocracy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Psalms of Solomon, Second Temple, Aramaic Levi, Letter of James, Book of the Watchers, Astronomical Book, Scholars Press, Dead Sea Scrolls, New York, Animal Apocalypse, Hebrew Bible, Book of Enoch, Wisdom of Solomon, New Testament, Epistle of Barnabas, Society of Biblical Literature, Epistle of James, Mosaic Torah, Seminar Papers, George Nickelsburg, Sheffield Academic Press, Richard Horsley, First Enoch, Near Eastern, Old Testament Wisdom New!
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- Old Testament: Story and Faith : A Literary and Theological Introduction by James L. Crenshaw on 6 pages
- Second Temple Studies (JSOT supplement) (v. 1) by Davies on 6 pages
- The Wisdom of Ben Sira (The Anchor Bible, Vol. 39) by Patrick W. Skehan on 5 pages
- Old Testament Wisdom: An Introduction by James L. Crenshaw on 5 pages
- Wisdom in Israel by Von Gerhard Rad on 4 pages
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