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

Table of Contents

I Introduction to scribes, sages, and seers: Sages, scribes, and seers in Israel and the ancient near east: an introduction / Leo G. Perdue -- II. Scribes, sages, and seers in ancient Egypt: Knowledge and knowledgeable men in ancient Egypt: queries and arguments about an unsettled issue / Thomas Schneider -- III. Scribes, sages, and seers in ancient Mesopotamia: Scribes and wisdom in ancient mesopotamia / Bendt Alster -- Tales of two sages: towards an image of the " wise man" in Akkadian writings / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- IV. Scribes, sages, and seers in Ugarit and Syria: Scribes, sages, and seers in Ugarit / Ignacio Märquez Rowe -- The Aramaic tradition: Ahikar / Ingo Kottsieper -- V. Scribes, sages, and seers in first temple Israel: Scribes, sages, and seers in the first temple / Katharine Dell -- VI. Scribes, sages, and seers in second temple Judah: the authors of Job and their historical and social setting / Konrad Schmid -- Wisdom as a hermeneutical key to the book of Psalms / Manfred Oeming -- Ezra - priest and scribe / Teinhard G. Kratz -- The social world of Ecclesiastes / Choon-Leong Seow -- The sociological significance of the scribe as the teacher of Wisdom in Ben Sira / Friederich V. Reiterer -- VII. Scribes, sages, and seers in the Greek and Roman empires: The sage behind the Wisdom of Solomon / Michael Kolarcik, S.J. -- Seers as mantic sages in Jewish apocalyptic (Daniel and Enoch) / Andreas Bedenbender -- Sages and scribes in the Qumran literature / Armin Lange -- VIII. Scribes, sages, and seers and the transition to rabbinic Judaism: Sages, scribes, and seers in rabbinic Judaism / Günter Stemberger.