TY  - BOOK
ED  - Dell, Katharine
ED  - Millar, Suzanna
ED  - Keefer, Arthur
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022//
TI  - Cambridge companion to biblical wisdom literature
T3  - Cambridge companions to religion
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Wisdom literature
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
AB  - Study of the wisdom literature in the Hebrew Bible and the contemporary cultures in the ancient Near Eastern world is evolving rapidly as old definitions and assumptions are questioned. Scholars are now interrogating the role of oral culture, the rhetoric of teaching and didacticism, the understanding of genre, and the relationship of these factors to the corpus of writings. The scribal culture in which wisdom literature arose is also under investigation, alongside questions of social context and character formation. This Companion serves as an essential guide to wisdom texts, a body of biblical literature with ancient origins that continue to have universal and timeless appeal. Reflecting new interpretive approaches, including virtue ethics and intertextuality, the volume includes essays by an international team of leading scholars. They engage with the texts, provide authoritative summaries of the state of the field, and open up to readers the exciting world of biblical wisdom.
SN  - 9781108673082
UR  - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-biblical-wisdom-literature/4226F0D8F0F624C447B8F0FDE15A0C32
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108673082
DO  - 10.1017/9781108673082
LA  - English
N1  - edited by Katharine J Dell (University of Cambridge) ; assistant editors Suzanna R. Millar (University of Edinburgh), Arthur Jan Keefer (Eton College)
ID  - 1814872256
ER  -