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Between Wisdom and Torah: Discourses on Wisdom and Law in Second Temple Judaism

Between Wisdom and Torah: Discourses on Wisdom and Law in Second Temple Judaism

Hardcover

Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, Book 51

Literary CriticismJudaismBible Studies

ISBN10: 3111069311
ISBN13: 9783111069319
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: May 8 2023
Pages: 415
Weight: 1.67
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Previous scholars have largely approached Wisdom and Torah in the Second Temple Period through a type of reception history, whereby the two concepts have been understood as signifiers of independent, earlier biblical streams of tradition that later came together in the Hellenistic and Roman eras, largely under the process of a so-called torahization of wisdom. Recent studies critiquing the nature of wisdom and wisdom literature as operative categories for understanding scribal cultures in early Judaism, as well as newer approaches to conceptualizing Torah and authorizing-compositional practices related to the Pentateuchal texts, however, have challenged the foundations on which the previous models of Wisdom and Torah rested. This volume, therefore, brings together several essays that aim to reexamine and rethink the ways we can describe the developments of texts categorized as Wisdom that proliferated during the Second Temple Period and whose contents point to an engagement with a Torah discourse. By asking anew the question of whether Wisdom was transformed by/into Torah during this period, this volume offers reformulations on the discursive space between Wisdom and Torah through analyzing new identifications, confluences, and transformations.

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