Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xiii

Abbreviations xiv

Editors' Introduction 1
Samuel L. Adams and Matthew Goff

I. Texts 11

1 Proverbs 13
Jacqueline Vayntrub

2 Job 30
Davis Hankins

3 Ecclesiastes 49
Jennie Grillo

4 Psalms 67
William P. Brown

5 Sirach/Ben Sira 87
Bradley C. Gregory

6 Wisdom of Solomon 104
Randall D. Chesnutt

7 Wisdom Texts From the Dead Sea Scrolls 122
Elisa Uusimaeki

8 Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes in the Septuagint (LXX) 139
Patrick Pouchelle

II. Themes 157

9 The Figure of Solomon 159
Blake A. Jurgens

10 Female Imagery in Wisdom Literature 177
Tova Forti

11 Scribes and Pedagogy in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism 195
Matthew Goff

12 God in Wisdom Literature 213
James L. Crenshaw

13 Jewish Wisdom in the Contest of Hellenistic Philosophy and Culture: Pseudo-Phocylides and Philo of Alexandria 229
Michael Cover

14 Wisdom and Apocalypticism 248
Jason M. Zurawski

15 The Orality of Wisdom Literature 267
Timothy J. Sandoval

III. Antecedents 287

16 Ahiqar and Other Legendary Sages 289
Seth A. Bledsoe

17 Wisdom Literature in Egypt 310
Samuel L. Adams

18 Mesopotamian Wisdom 328
Nili Samet

IV. Reception 349

19 Wisdom in the New Testament 351
Benjamin Wold

20 Wisdom and the Rabbis 368
Ari Mermelstein

21 The Wisdom Tradition in Early Christianity through Late Antiquity 389
Carson Bay

22 Jewish Sapiential Traditions in the Nag Hammadi Library 412
Dylan M. Burns

23 The Sapiential Books in the Latin Middle Ages 429
Gilbert Dahan

24 The Reception History of Job 447
Mark Larrimore

25 Wisdom from African Proverbs Meets Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs 464
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)

26 Cinematic Wisdom: Film and Biblical Wisdom Literature 479
Matthew S. Rindge

Index 496

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