An obituary for "Wisdom Literature": the birth, death, and intertextual reintegration of a Biblical corpus
This work proposes a radical solution to the problems plaguing the interpretation of Wisdom literature. Kynes identifies the historical origin of the category and critically assesses its development and distorting effect on interpretation.
| Summary: | This work proposes a radical solution to the problems plaguing the interpretation of Wisdom literature. Kynes identifies the historical origin of the category and critically assesses its development and distorting effect on interpretation. Cover -- An Obituary for "Wisdom Literature": The Birth, Death, and Intertextual Reintegration of a Biblical Corpus -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: HISTORICAL METACRITICISM -- PART II: GENRE METHODOLOGY -- Wisdom Terminology -- Wisdom Literature as a Category -- Wisdom as a Genre -- Wisdom Schools -- Wisdom as a Concept -- PART III: THE REINTEGRATIONOF WISDOM LITERATURE -- CONCLUSION -- Part I: Historical Metacriticism -- 1: The Rise and Impending Demise of Wisdom Literature: The Modern Scholarly Wisdom Tradition and the Threat of Pan-Sapientialism -- 1.1 SYPMTOMS OF WISDOM'S ILLNESS -- 1.2 PATIENT HISTORY -- 1.3 DISCUSSION AND DIAGNOSIS -- 1.3.1 A Case of Pan-Sapientialism -- 1.3.2 Failed Treatments -- 1.3.2.1 Refining Genre Methodology -- 1.3.2.2 Examining Scribal Setting -- 1.3.3 The Looming Epidemic -- 1.4 ANALOGOUS CASES -- 1.4.1 Wisdom in the Psalter -- 1.4.2 Wisdom at Qumran -- 1.4.3 Wisdom in the Ancient Near East -- 1.4.4 Pan-Deuteronomism -- 1.5 PRESCRIBED TREATMENT -- 2: The Ancestry of Wisdom Literature: Ancient Tradition or Modern Invention? -- 2.1 CANONICAL STRUCTURE AND ORDER -- 2.1.1 Hebrew Order -- 2.1.2 Greek Order -- 2.2 SOLOMONIC ASSOCIATION -- 2.3 COMMON TRAITS -- 2.4 THE TITLE "WISDOM" -- 2.5 MEDIEVAL INTERPRETATION -- CONCLUSION -- 3: The Birth of Wisdom Literature: The Nineteenth-Century Origin of the Wisdom Corpus -- 3.1 WISDOM'S DATE OF BIRTH -- 3.2 BRUCH'S INFLUENCES -- 3.2.1 W. M. L. de Wette -- 3.2.2 Friedrich Umbreit -- 3.2.3 Heinrich Ewald -- 3.2.4 Wilhelm Vatke -- 3.3 WEISHEITS-LEHRE DER HEBRÄER -- 3.4 IMPLICATIONS -- Part II: Genre Methodology -- 4: The Universe of Texts: The Intertextual Network of Genres from Multiple Perspectives -- 4.1 THE TRADITIONAL TAXONOMIC APPROACH -- 4.2 THE REBIRTH OF GENRE. |
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| ISBN: | 0191083186 |