RT Book
T1 An obituary for "Wisdom Literature": the birth, death, and intertextual reintegration of a Biblical corpus
A1 Kynes, Will 1981-
LA English
PP Oxford
PB Oxford University Press USA- OSO
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1809570565
AB 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.
AB 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.
NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
SN 9780191083181
K1 Wisdom literature-Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Electronic books