Author : Charlotte Hempel
Release : 2002
Genre : Dead Sea scrolls
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 102/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Wisdom Texts from Qumran and the Development of Sapiential Thought by : Charlotte Hempel
Download or read book The Wisdom Texts from Qumran and the Development of Sapiential Thought written by Charlotte Hempel. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises the lectures delivered at a conference on the sapiential texts from Qumran hosted by A. Lange and H. Lichtenberger in Tubingen (1998) as well as a number of additional contributions. This literature, although found in the Qumran library, is mostly of non-Essene origin and can be dated to the third and second century BCE with a single exception which might be even older. The sapiential texts from Qumran add to the sparse corpus of postexilic sapiential literature and shed new light on the later Israelite and Jewish wisdom as well as on the sources from which early Christian wisdom traditions originated. Therefore, the volume attempts to understand the wisdom literature from Qumran in the broader context of sapiential thought in the Ancient near East, the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Judaism and the New Testament. Beyond this, the volume further includes treatments of introductory and linguistic questions as well as articles on specific sapiential texts.