Scribes, sages, and seers : the sage in the Eastern Mediterranean world

• TeilnehmendeR: Perdue, Leo G
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments Scribes, sages, and seers
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: I Introduction to scribes, sages, and seers: Sages, scribes, and seers in Israel and the ancient near east: an introduction /; II. Scribes, sages, and seers in ancient Egypt: Knowledge and knowledgeable men in ancient Egypt: queries and arguments about an unsettled issue /; III. Scribes, sages, and seers in ancient Mesopotamia: Scribes and wisdom in ancient mesopotamia /; Tales of two sages: towards an image of the " wise man" in Akkadian writings /; IV. Scribes, sages, and seers in Ugarit and Syria: Scribes, sages, and seers in Ugarit /; The Aramaic tradition: Ahikar /; V. Scribes, sages, and seers in first temple Israel: Scribes, sages, and seers in the first temple /; VI. Scribes, sages, and seers in second temple Judah: the authors of Job and their historical and social setting /; Wisdom as a hermeneutical key to the book of Psalms /; Ezra - priest and scribe /; The social world of Ecclesiastes /; The sociological significance of the scribe as the teacher of Wisdom in Ben Sira /; VII. Scribes, sages, and seers in the Greek and Roman empires: The sage behind the Wisdom of Solomon /; Seers as mantic sages in Jewish apocalyptic (Daniel and Enoch) /; Sages and scribes in the Qumran literature /; VIII. Scribes, sages, and seers and the transition to rabbinic Judaism: Sages, scribes, and seers in rabbinic Judaism /
• ISBN: 3666530834
• Hierarchical level: Monograph