Wisdom intoned: a reappraisal of the genre "Wisdom Psalms"
Chapter One Classifying 'wisdom psalms' -- Chapter Two The Salient Wisdom Features -- Chapter Three Psalm 37: The ABCs of living in the land -- Chapter Four Psalm 49: The Riddle of Death -- Chapter Five Psalm 73: Crossing the Boundary -- Chapter Six 'Wisdom' in the Fringe (I): Tw...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London New York
Bloomsbury International Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
[2015]
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Was there a wisdom tradition?; Simon Chi-Chung Cheung, Wisdom Intoned: A Reappraisal of the Genre “Wisdom Psalm] (2018) (Zhang, Sarah)
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| Series/Journal: | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies
613 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Psalms
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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| Summary: | Chapter One Classifying 'wisdom psalms' -- Chapter Two The Salient Wisdom Features -- Chapter Three Psalm 37: The ABCs of living in the land -- Chapter Four Psalm 49: The Riddle of Death -- Chapter Five Psalm 73: Crossing the Boundary -- Chapter Six 'Wisdom' in the Fringe (I): Two Cultic Psalms -- Chapter Seven 'Wisdom' in the Fringe (II): A Joban and a Torah Psalm -- Chapter Eight: Conclusion -- Appendix: 'Wisdom Psalms' Lists -- Bibliography It has been hard to categorise and identify the 'Wisdom psalms' within the Psalter. Interpreters have produced different lists of wisdom psalms of greatly varying lengths, and individual scholars often change their choices over time. Cheung re-examines the issues at stake in identifying this group of psalms in order to better describe the configuration of this psalmic genre. Past scholarship has failed to settle this issue because of the use of unfit criteria and an ill-understood concept of genre. With the aid of the concepts of 'family resemblance' and 'prototypes', this book proposes to define 'wisdom psalms' as a psalm family which is characterised by a wisdom-oriented constellation of its generic features. Three such features are identified after a fresh assessment of the most typical characteristics of 'wisdom literature'. This proposed method is put to test in the extensive study of seven psalms (37, 49, 73, 128, 32, 39, and 19) and the three criteria are verified to be suitable descriptors of the 'wisdom psalm' family. Cheung also explores questions related to the wisdom-cult disparity, Joban parallels as wisdom indicators, and the wisdom-orientation of 'torah psalms' |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 0567664759 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9780567664754 |