The Wisdom Texts from Qumran and the Development of Sapiential Thought

Edited by C. Hempel Edited by A. Lange Edited by H. Lichtenberger

Book cover: The Wisdom Texts from Qumran and the Development of Sapiential Thought

Extent: 502 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium

Series volume number: 159

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2002)

ISBN: 9789042910102

Price: $100.00

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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.

  • Edited by C. Hempel
  • Edited by A. Lange
  • Edited by H. Lichtenberger