Wisdom and Law in the Book of Wisdom: A New Type of Relationship

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgement V
3. Contents VII
4. Preface IX
5. Abbreviations XVII
6. Part I: Wisdom & Torah in Instructional Literature
7. Instructions and Torah in Proverbs 1–9: Assessing the Confluence of Torah and Wisdom in Proverbs 1
8. Proverbs 28 and the Discourse on Wisdom and Torah in the Book of Proverbs 27
9. Ben Sira and His Grandson on Torah and Wisdom: Similar or Divergent Views? 45
10. Part II: Wisdom & Torah in Skeptical-Critical Discourse
11. “Things Too Wondrous” (Job 42:3): The Torah and the Limits of Knowledge in the Book of Job 75
12. Failing to be Wise: The Case of Qohelet 97
13. Wisdom and Law in the Book of Wisdom: A New Type of Relationship 113
14. Sofia and Nomos in the Wisdom of Solomon 131
15. Part III: Wisdom & Torah in Legal Discourse
16. Explaining the “Confluence” of Biblical Wisdom and Torah: An Anthropological and Rhetorical Approach 147
17. The Amalgamation of “Wisdom” in the Post-Deuteronomistic Deuteronomy of the Persian and Hellenistic Periods 173
18. Law and Wisdom in the Epitaph of Abramos, Communal Magistrate (JIGRE 39 = SB 5765) 189
19. Part IV: Wisdom & Torah in Poetic Reflection
20. The Song of Songs: Torah, Creation, Celebration, and Libertinism 241
21. Wisdom and Torah in the Hodayot and the Great Psalms Scroll: The Place of Prayer in Understanding Some Early Jewish Pedagogy 275
22. Part V: Wisdom & Torah in Narrative Imagination
23. The Question of Wisdom Influence in the Composition of the Joseph Narrative 295
24. Ahiqar the “Patriarch”: Tobit’s Interpretation of the Wisdom of Ahiqar through a Torahizing Lens 319
25. Index of Modern Authors 365
26. Index of Sources 373