OBITUARY FOR WISDOM LITERATURE C

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-877737-3
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 565 g

An Obituary for "Wisdom Literature" considers the definitional issues long plaguing Wisdom scholarship. Will Kynes argues that Wisdom Literature is not a category used in early Jewish and Christian interpretation. It first emerged in modern scholarship, shaped by its birthplace in nineteenth-century Germany. Kynes casts new light on the traits long associated with the category, such as universalism, humanism, rationalism, empiricism, and secularism, which so closely reflect the ideals of that time. Since it was originally assembled to reflect modern ideals, it is not surprising that biblical scholars have faced serious difficulties defining the corpus on another basis or integrating it into the theology of the Old Testament.

The problem, however, is not only why the texts were perceived in this one way, but that they are perceived in only one way at all. The book builds on recent theories from literary studies and cognitive science to create a new alternative approach to genre that integrates hermeneutical insight from various genre proposals. This theory is then applied to Job, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs, mapping out the complex textual network contributing to their meaning. With the death of the Wisdom Literature category, both the so-called Wisdom texts and the concept of wisdom find new life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kynes

Kynes, Will

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of tables and figures

- List of Abbreviations

- Introduction

- Part 1: Historical Metacriticism

- 1: The Rise and Impending Demise of Wisdom Literature: The Modern Scholarly Wisdom Tradition and the Threat of Pan-sapientialism

- 2: The Ancestry of Wisdom Literature: Ancient Tradition or Modern Invention?

- 3: The Birth of Wisdom Literature: The Nineteenth-Century Origin of the Wisdom Corpus

- Part 2: Genre Methodology

- 4: The Universe of Texts: The Intertextual Network of Genres from Multiple Perspectives

- Part 3: The Reintegration of Wisdom Literature

- 5: The Intertextual Network of Job and the Selective Nature of Genre

- 6: The Intertextual Network of Ecclesiastes and the Self-Reflective Nature of Genre

- 7: The Intertextual Network of Proverbs and the Subjective Nature of Genre

- Conclusion

- Appendix: Ps 107:40 and Job 12:21, 24 in Commentaries on the Psalms and Job

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Will Kynes is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Samford University. He is the author of My Psalm Has Turned into Weeping: Job's Dialogue with the Psalms (de Gruyter, 2012), which received the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2015, and co-editor, with Katharine Dell, of Reading Job Intertextually (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013), Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2014), and Reading Proverbs Intertextually (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019).