Discerning wisdom : the sapiential literature of the Dead Sea scrolls /
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Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira was the only Hebrew wisdom text from the late Second Temple period. The Qumran scrolls provide an abundance of previously unknown Hebrew sapiential material. Discerning Wisdom provides a systematic overview of all the Qumran texts that are commonly identified as wisdom compositions. This literature raises issues such as the incorporation of apocalypticism and Torah piety into the sapiential tradition. The Dead Sea Scrolls offer crucial evidence for understanding the wisdom of the late Second Temple period and the reception of traditional wisdom in Early Judaism.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-336) and indexes. :
9789047418740 :
0083-5889 ; :
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The worldly and heavenly wisdom of 4QInstruction /
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This volume is devoted to 4QInstruction, the last lengthy text of the Dead Sea Scrolls to be officially published. It is also the largest wisdom text of this corpus. The central concern of this study is how this composition should be understood in relation to the sapiential and apocalyptic traditions. Features of 4QInstruction that are examined include its appeal to revelation, its presentation of poverty, and its eschatology. The document's relationship to both 1 Enoch and the Dead Sea sect is also discussed. This study will prove useful to anyone interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the reception of the Jewish wisdom tradition in the Second Temple period, and apocalypticism.
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.). :
1 online resource (x, 276 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-249) and indexes. :
9789004350489 :
0169-9962 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices : Selected Papers from the Conference "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices" in Berlin, 20-22 July 2018 /
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The discoveries of Coptic books containing "Gnostic" scriptures in Upper Egypt in 1945 and of the Dead Sea Scrolls near Khirbet Qumran in 1946 are commonly reckoned as the most important archaeological finds of the twentieth century for the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism. Yet, impeded by academic insularity and delays in publication, scholars never conducted a full-scale, comparative investigation of these two sensational corpora-until now. Featuring articles by an all-star, international lineup of scholars, this book offers the first sustained, interdisciplinary study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices.
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Featuring articles by an all-star, international lineup of scholars, this book offers the first sustained, comparative study of two discoveries of immense significance for the history of ancient Judaism and Christianity: the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004517561
9789004513020
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices : Selected Papers from the Conference "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices" in Berlin, 20-22 July 2018 /
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The discoveries of Coptic books containing "Gnostic" scriptures in Upper Egypt in 1945 and of the Dead Sea Scrolls near Khirbet Qumran in 1946 are commonly reckoned as the most important archaeological finds of the twentieth century for the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism. Yet, impeded by academic insularity and delays in publication, scholars never conducted a full-scale, comparative investigation of these two sensational corpora-until now. Featuring articles by an all-star, international lineup of scholars, this book offers the first sustained, interdisciplinary study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices.
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Featuring articles by an all-star, international lineup of scholars, this book offers the first sustained, comparative study of two discoveries of immense significance for the history of ancient Judaism and Christianity: the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004517561
9789004513020
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices : Selected Papers from the Conference "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices" in Berlin, 20-22 July 2018 /
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The discoveries of Coptic books containing "Gnostic" scriptures in Upper Egypt in 1945 and of the Dead Sea Scrolls near Khirbet Qumran in 1946 are commonly reckoned as the most important archaeological finds of the twentieth century for the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism. Yet, impeded by academic insularity and delays in publication, scholars never conducted a full-scale, comparative investigation of these two sensational corpora-until now. Featuring articles by an all-star, international lineup of scholars, this book offers the first sustained, interdisciplinary study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices.
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Featuring articles by an all-star, international lineup of scholars, this book offers the first sustained, comparative study of two discoveries of immense significance for the history of ancient Judaism and Christianity: the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004517561
9789004513020
Sirach and Its Contexts : The Pursuit of Wisdom and Human Flourishing /
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In Sirach and Its Contexts an international cohort of experts on the book of Sirach locate this second-century BCE Jewish wisdom text in its various contexts: literary, historical, philosophical, textual, cultural, and political. First compiled by a Jewish sage around 185 BCE, this instruction enjoyed a vibrant ongoing reception history through the middle ages up to the present, resulting in a multiform textual tradition as it has been written, rewritten, transmitted, and studied. Sirach was not composed as a book in the modern sense but rather as an ongoing stream of tradition. Heretofore studied largely in confessional settings as part of the Deuterocanonical literature, this volume brings together essays that take a broadly humanistic approach, in order to understand what an ancient wisdom text can teach us about the pursuit of wisdom and human flourishing.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004447332
9789004447325