Wisdom's Wonder: Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible's Wisdom Literature
Cover -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Character, Creation, and Wonder in Wisdom -- Character and Creation -- Wisdom's Wonder -- Wisdom and the Wisdom Literature -- Modus Operandi -- 2. Wonder, Desire, and the Art of Character Formation in Proverbs -- The Prologue of Proverbs --...
| Summary: | Cover -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Character, Creation, and Wonder in Wisdom -- Character and Creation -- Wisdom's Wonder -- Wisdom and the Wisdom Literature -- Modus Operandi -- 2. Wonder, Desire, and the Art of Character Formation in Proverbs -- The Prologue of Proverbs -- Context and Crisis -- The Ethos of Instruction -- The Profile of Virtue in Parental Discourse -- The Profile of Edifying Wonder: Woman Wisdom -- The Profile of Seductive Terror: Woman Stranger -- Instruction for the Wise: The Reciprocal Rebuke -- Pondering Proverbs -- Wonder and the Journey of Character -- 3. The Wound of Wonder: Job 1-31 -- The Crisis of Piety -- The Prologue: Testing Integrity -- The Poetic Discourse: Integrity Reprofiled -- Wisdom's Inaccessibility? -- Job's Fear(s) -- Integrity in Transition -- Job's Final Defense -- 4. Wonder Gone Wild: Job 32-42 -- Elihu: Renegade Sage, Wonder's Herald -- Wonder Gone Wild: YHWH's Discourse -- The Epilogue: Job Restored -- A New Ecology of Character -- 5. Wandering among the Ruins: Ecclesiastes I -- Crisis: Social and Sapiential -- Qoheleth's Self--Characterization -- Shaking the Foundations -- Stepping Back in Self--Transcendence -- Wisdom's Demise? -- 6. Wondering among the Ruins: Ecclesiastes II -- Wonder Rising -- God-Fearing -- Character-Forming -- Aporetic Probing and Pleasure -- 7. Conclusion: Trembling at the Threshold -- Saving Fear, Shaping Desire -- Forming Character -- A Synthesis of Character? -- Works Cited -- Subject and Name Index -- Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Literature |
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| ISBN: | 1467440353 |