Scribes As Sages And Prophets
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| Author | : Jutta Krispenz |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2020-11-09 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 3110483602 |
Scholars of the Hebrew Bible used to look at „Prophecy" and „Wisdom" as clearly distinct realms represented by antagonistic and mutually exclusive roles of their central characters: the loyal sage, the pillar of administration, on the one side and the rebellious prophet, criticizing the establishment, on the other. While the influence of wisdom thought on prophetic texts has been a topic in the scholarly debate, the complementary question of the influence of prophetic thought on wisdom texts has rarely been asked. The contributions in this volume look at both questions: They start from the assumption that texts from the Hebrew Bible and the cultures surrounding Ancient Israel all originated from a social stratum of educated scribes, who authored and transmitted these texts. It then seems plausible that wisdom texts might show similar traces of prophetic influence to those of wisdom thoughts found in prophetic texts. The essays give a multifaceted picture concerning the mutual perception of prophets and sages and thus provide a deeper understanding of both wisdom literature and prophecy.
| Author | : Leo G. Perdue |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 9783525530832 |
Research findings from archaeological, theological, and cultural studies illustrate how sages decisively shaped the literature and language of a culture. Their influence extended to the arts, social and religious institutions, and the sciences. This volume includes essays that examine this particular group of wise men in context of their time.
| Author | : Bernd Schipper |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2013-10-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004257365 |
A proper assessment of the manifold relationships that obtain between “wisdom” and “Torah” in the Second Temple Period has fascinated generations of interpreters. The essays of the present collection seek to understand this key relationship by focusing attention on specific instances of the reception of “Torah” in Wisdom literature and the shaping of Torah by wisdom. Taking the concepts of wisdom and torah in the various literary strata of the book of Deuteronomy as a point of departure, the remainder of the book examines the relationship between wisdom and Torah in Wisdom literature of the Second Temple period, including Proverbs, Qohelet, Ps 19 and 119, Baruch, Ben Sira, Wisdom, sapiential and rewritten scriptural texts from Qumran, and the Wisdom of Solomon.
| Author | : Joseph Blenkinsopp |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 1992-11-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 185075375X |
The 17 essays in this volume fall into four sections: Early Judaism and its Environment; Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah; Wisdom, Scribes and Scribalism; and Theology of the Hebrew Bible. They are accompanied by a biographical sketch (by Robert Wilken) and a bibliography of Blenkinsopp's writings. Joseph Blenkinsopp is one of the foremost Catholic biblical scholars of his generation. Born in England, he has taught in the USA since 1968. The essays in this volume contributed by colleagues, friends and students reflect the many interests of Joseph Blenkinsopp's innovative and multi-faceted scholarship.
| Author | : Alison Acker Gruseke |
| Publisher | : Zaphon |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9783963272165 |
Intro -- Gruseke / Sharp: Preface -- Table of Contents -- Publications of Robert R. Wilson -- Gruseke: A Sage in New Haven Marches to the Beat of His Own Drum: The Inimitable Wit and Wisdom of Robert Rutherford Wilson -- Part I: "Between Heaven and Earth": Prophecy and Society in the Ancient Near East -- van der Toorn: The Sons of the Prophets: Movement, Guild, Order, or Sect? -- Baden: Situating Balaam -- Niditch: Tradition and Variation in Tales of National Foundation: Og in Biblical Historiography and Postbiblical Contexts -- Smith: The Name(s) of the Book of Judges in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods: Observations and Reflections -- Mobley: The Human Body in Judges -- Bloch-Smith: Breaking Ground: Archaeology's Contribution to the Redaction of the Shechem Temple Narrative (Judges 9:46-49) -- Heller: Nathan's Sixth Sense: Russian Formalism, Cinematic Technique, and the Character of a Prophet -- Cook: "All Flesh," "Together": The Divine Glory's Tractive Force in Isaiah 40-66 -- Carvalho: Eunuchs and Foreigners: Males and Sexual Assault in Isaiah 56:1-8 -- Stulman: The Prose Discourses of Jeremiah 1-25 as Legitimation for the Collapse of Early Sixth-Century Judean Society -- Water: Pain and Provocation: A Social-Scientific Reading of Jeremiah 15 -- Dewrell: How Prophecy Gets Written: Hosea, Redactors, and Neo-Assyrian Prophecy -- Mayfield: Genre Multiplicity in Micah 6:1-8: A Non-Legal rîb and an Entrance Liturgy -- Anderson: On Doing Justice, Loving Mercy, and Walking Humbly in Micah 6:8: The Peaceable Ways of Israel's God, Then and Now -- Part II: "My Tongue is the Pen of a Skillful Scribe": Scholars, Scholarship, and the Shaping of Tradition in the Ancient and Modern Worlds -- Lester: Conveying the Covenant: Mechanisms of Persuasion in the Sefire Inscriptions -- Brettler: Pandemics and Pilgrimages: A Suggested Sitz im Leben for Psalm 91.
| Author | : Mark s. Sneed |
| Publisher | : Fortress Press |
| Total Pages | : 470 |
| Release | : 2015-06-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1451479875 |
Is there evidence for a distinct "wisdom tradition" in ancient Israel? Mark R. Sneed redefines the wisdom literature as a loosely cohering collection of books that educated scribal apprentices in moral instruction. Sneed discusses the data for scribal culture and pedagogy in the ancient Near East, suggesting that wisdom literature was meant to complement, not to compete with, other modes of literature in the Hebrew Bible. The result is a surprising new picture of the authors and tradents of the wisdom literature. Maps and illustrations included.
| Author | : Karel van der Toorn |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 414 |
| Release | : 2009-04-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0674032543 |
We think of the Hebrew Bible as the Book--and yet it was produced by a largely nonliterate culture in which writing, editing, copying, interpretation, and public reading were the work of a professional elite. The scribes of ancient Israel are indeed the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and in this book Karel van der Toorn tells their story for the first time. His book considers the Bible in very specific historical terms, as the output of the scribal workshop of the Second Temple active in the period 500-200 BCE. Drawing comparisons with the scribal practices of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, van der Toorn clearly details the methods, the assumptions, and the material means of production that gave rise to biblical texts; then he brings his observations to bear on two important texts, Deuteronomy and Jeremiah. Traditionally seen as the copycats of antiquity, the scribes emerge here as the literate elite who held the key to the production as well as the transmission of texts. Van der Toorn's account of scribal culture opens a new perspective on the origins of the Hebrew Bible, revealing how the individual books of the Bible and the authors associated with them were products of the social and intellectual world of the scribes. By taking us inside that world, this book yields a new and arresting appreciation of the Hebrew Scriptures.
| Author | : Mark Leuchter |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2020-11-12 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0567696170 |
This volume is a concentrated examination of the varied roles of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel and Judah, shedding light on the social world of the Hebrew Bible. Divided into discussion of three key aspects, the book begins by assessing praxis and materiality, looking at the tools and materials used by scribes, where they came from and how they worked in specific contexts. The contributors then move to observe the power and status of scribal cultures, and how scribes functioned within their broader social world. Finally, the volume offers perspectives that examine ideological issues at play in both antiquity and the modern context(s) of biblical scholarship. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that no text is produced in a void, and no writer functions without a network of resources.
| Author | : Theresa Harvard Johnson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2015-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781539774617 |
In this unique book, Signs of a Scribal Prophet, those who are hearing the clarion call to scribal ministry can finally learn what it really means to be a "scribal prophet" in the earth today, while dismantling many of the myths and misleading teachings that severely limit their calling to recording prophecy or prophetic revelation.
| Author | : Randall X. Gauthier |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 414 |
| Release | : 2016-11-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004325220 |
The studies collected in this volume were written in honour of Johann Cook, emeritus professor of the Department of Ancient Studies at Stellenbosch University. They cover a variety of subjects including the translation of Hebrew expressions into Greek, the reception of LXX texts in various contexts, topics related to wisdom and the LXX versions of sapiential literature, Ben Sira as a scribe of the Second Temple period, themes in the works of Philo and Josephus and the references to Sumkhos ben Joseph in rabbinic writings. The contributions therefore focus on the Septuagint, early Jewish sages and ancient scriptures. They present the results of original research, identify new lines and topics of inquiry and make novel contributions to existing insights.
