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

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