Between Wisdom and Torah : : Discourses on Wisdom and Law in Second Temple Judaism / / ed. by Jiseong James Kwon, Seth Bledsoe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Beentjes, Pancratius C.,; Bledsoe, Seth A.,; Brooke, George J.,; Davidson, Lindsey A.,; Elgvin, Torleif,; Gore-Jones, Lydia,; Häner, Tobias,; Kwon, JiSeong J.,; Mazzinghi, Luca,; Otto, Eckart,; Römer, Thomas,; Schipper, Bernd U.,; Sneed, Mark,; Weeks, Stuart,
• HerausgeberIn: Bledsoe, Seth,; Kwon, Jiseong James,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies , 51
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXII, 393 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part I: Wisdom & Torah in Instructional Literature -- Instructions and Torah in Proverbs 1–9: Assessing the Confluence of Torah and Wisdom in Proverbs -- Proverbs 28 and the Discourse on Wisdom and Torah in the Book of Proverbs -- Ben Sira and His Grandson on Torah and Wisdom: Similar or Divergent Views? -- 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 -- Failing to be Wise: The Case of Qohelet -- Wisdom and Law in the Book of Wisdom: A New Type of Relationship -- Sofia and Nomos in the Wisdom of Solomon -- Part III: Wisdom & Torah in Legal Discourse -- Explaining the “Confluence” of Biblical Wisdom and Torah: An Anthropological and Rhetorical Approach -- The Amalgamation of “Wisdom” in the Post-Deuteronomistic Deuteronomy of the Persian and Hellenistic Periods -- Law and Wisdom in the Epitaph of Abramos, Communal Magistrate (JIGRE 39 = SB 5765) -- Part IV: Wisdom & Torah in Poetic Reflection -- The Song of Songs: Torah, Creation, Celebration, and Libertinism -- Wisdom and Torah in the Hodayot and the Great Psalms Scroll: The Place of Prayer in Understanding Some Early Jewish Pedagogy -- Part V: Wisdom & Torah in Narrative Imagination -- The Question of Wisdom Influence in the Composition of the Joseph Narrative -- Ahiqar the “Patriarch”: Tobit’s Interpretation of the Wisdom of Ahiqar through a Torahizing Lens -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Sources