Riddles and revelations: explorations into the relationship between wisdom and prophecy in the Hebrew Bible
Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part I Proverbs in Dialogue with the Hebrew Bible -- Chapter 1 Wisdom is the Tree of Life: A Study of Proverbs 3:13-20 and Genesis 2-3 -- Intertextual Connections: Prov 3:...
| Summary: | Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part I Proverbs in Dialogue with the Hebrew Bible -- Chapter 1 Wisdom is the Tree of Life: A Study of Proverbs 3:13-20 and Genesis 2-3 -- Intertextual Connections: Prov 3:13-20 and Genesis 2-3 -- Implications for Interpreting Prov 3:13-20 -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 'Teach them diligently to your son!': The Book of Proverbs and Deuteronomy -- Proverbs and Deuteronomic Law -- Hermeneutic of Torah: The Use of Deuteronomy in Proverbs 6 -- Proverbs, Deuteronomy, and the Discourse on 'Wisdom and Torah' -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Wisdom Defined through Narrative and Intertextual Network: 1 Kings 1-11 and Proverbs -- Intertextual Method -- Political Education -- Ethical Paraenesis -- Cultic Guidance -- Inspired Instruction -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Proverbs and Isaiah 1-39 -- Kingdom of Judah: Transcript of a Special Meeting of the Cabinet -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Rebuke, Complaint, Lament, and Praise: Reading Proverbs and Psalms Together -- A Rhetorical Dissimilarity -- Reading Psalms Sapientially: The Case of the Rebuke -- Reading Proverbs Psalmically: Lament and Praise -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 The Proverbial Rhetoric of Job 28 -- The Proverbial Structure of Job 28 -- How fortunate is the one who finds wisdom! (Prov 3:13) -- She is more precious than coral (Prov 3:14-15) -- Yhwh founded the earth by wisdom (Prov 3:19) -- Fear YHWH and turn from evil (Prov 3:7) -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Twice-Told Proverbs as Inner-Biblical Exegesis -- The Significance of Twice-Told Proverbs -- Oral Twice-Told Proverbs -- Twice-Told Proverbs as Inner-Biblical Exegesis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography Chapter 8 Didactic Intertextuality: Proverbial Wisdom as Illustrated in Ruth -- Friendship and Family Loyalty -- Hard Work -- Entreaty -- Inappropriate Touching -- A True Reward -- Humility -- Redemption -- Obeying Instructions -- A Worthy Woman/Wife -- Building up Your House -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 Erotic Wisdom for a More Independent Youth: Is There a Debate between Song of Songs and Proverbs? -- Solomon's Wisdom -- Song of Songs and Proverbs as Solomonic Literature -- Debating Sexual Behaviour -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 Qohelet as a Reader of Proverbs* -- Introduction -- The Frame of the Book of Qohelet -- Qoh 1:1 -- Qoh 12:9 -- Continuity of Tradition and Reception Patterns in the Corpus of the Book -- Qoh 2:13-15 -- Qoh 4:4-6 -- Qoh 10:8-10 -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Part II Proverbs in Dialogue with Texts throughout History -- Chapter 11 Intertextuality between the Book of Ben Sira and the Book of Proverbs -- Introduction -- Intertextuality -- New Horizons -- A Closer Look at Corley's Approach -- On the Wrong Track -- (1) 'Slow to anger' -- (2) 'A hot-tempered man' -- Examples of Intertextual Relationship -- (1) 'Do not profit in the day of wrath' -- (2) 'A glutton and a drunkard' -- (3) 'Preserve yourself' -- (4) 'One who is always reverent' -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12 Aphorisms and Admonitions: The Reuse of Proverbs 7 in 4QWiles of the Wicked Woman (4Q184) -- Proverbs 7 -- 4QWiles of the Wicked Woman -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13 Proverbs in Dialogue with the New Testament -- Introduction -- Direct Quotations -- Allusion: Personified Wisdom and Jesus of Nazareth -- Thematic Comparison: A Conversation between Proverbs and Rom 13:1-7 -- Bibliography -- Chapter 14 Proverbs 8:22 and the Arian Controversy -- Gregory's Exegesis -- Gregory's Logic of Explication The Logic of the Incarnation and Human Wisdom -- The Overcoming of Creaturely Opposites -- Fourth-Century, Pro-Nicene Biblical Exegesis -- Bibliography -- Chapter 15 'Better X than Y': Context and Meaning in Proverbs, Qohelet, and Midrashic Collections -- Bibliography -- Chapter 16 Proverbs and the Confucian Classics -- Proverbs and the Confucian Classics -- Intertextual Comparison -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 17 Sex and Power(lessness) in Selected Northern Sotho and Yorùbá Proverbs: An Intertextual Reading of Proverbs 5-7 -- Proverbs 5-7 -- Prov 5:1-23 -- Prov 6:20-35 -- Prov 7:1-27 -- African Proverbs -- Selected Northern Sotho Proverbs on Adultery and Proverbs 5-7 -- Selected Yorùbá Proverbs on Adultery and Proverbs 5-7 -- Summary and Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Ancient Sources Index |
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| ISBN: | 0567671658 |