Perils of Wisdom : : The Scriptural Solomon in Jewish Tradition /

Perils of Wisdom : : The Scriptural Solomon in Jewish Tradition / / Sheila Leiter.

Perils of Wisdom engages the biblical Solomon narrative that appears in the Book of Kings and its reception by Jewish texts from scriptural sources through the traditional commentaries of the Middle Ages. The Bible presents a complex portrait of Solomon as both the wise Temple-builder as well as an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
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Leiter, Sheila,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Judaism in Context ; 28
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Physical Description:1 online resource (404 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • SECTION ONE. SOLOMON IN THE BIBLE
  • CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCING SOLOMON IN THE BOOK OF KINGS
  • CHAPTER 2. SOLOMON’S PORTRAYAL IN KINGS
  • CHAPTER 3. SOLOMON IN THE BOOK OF CHRONICLES
  • CHAPTER 4. SOLOMON IN OTHER BIBLICAL SOURCES
  • CHAPTER 5. INTRODUCING THE THREE SOLOMONIC WORKS
  • CHAPTER 6. THE ROLE OF SOLOMON IN PROVERBS AND ECCLESIASTES
  • CHAPTER 7. SOLOMON IN SONG OF SONGS
  • CHAPTER 8. THE DEBATE OVER CANONICITY
  • CHAPTER 9. RABBINIC DEBATES OVER THE NATURE OF SOLOMONIC WORKS
  • SECTION TWO. SOLOMON IN CLASSICAL RABBINIC LITERATURE
  • CHAPTER 1. SOLOMON IN SECOND TEMPLE LITERATURE AND EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITINGS
  • CHAPTER 2. INTRODUCTION TO MIDRASHIC SOURCES AND MAJOR MIDRASHIC TRADITIONS
  • CHAPTER 3. SOLOMON’S WISDOM
  • CHAPTER 4. DEBATES OVER WHETHER SOLOMON SINNED
  • CHAPTER 5. SOLOMON’S LEGACY
  • CHAPTER 6. LOSS OF THE THRONE AND ASHMEDAI
  • CHAPTER 7. THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION
  • CHAPTER 8. CRITICISM VERSUS APOLOGETICS
  • SECTION THREE. SOLOMON IN THE TARGUMIM
  • CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO TARGUMIM AND TARGUM TO KINGS
  • CHAPTER 2. TARGUM QOHELET
  • CHAPTER 3. TARGUM SONG OF SONGS
  • CHAPTER 4. TARGUM SHENI AND SOLOMON IN ISLAM
  • SECTION FOUR. SOLOMON IN THE MIDDLE AGES
  • CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL COMMENTARY
  • CHAPTER 2. THE SONG OF SONGS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
  • CHAPTER 3. COMMENTARY ON THE SOLOMON NARRATIVE IN KINGS
  • CHAPTER 4. SOLOMONIC APOLOGETICS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
  • CONCLUSION. THE REHABILITATION OF SOLOMON
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF PRIMARY SOURCES

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