Qumran Wisdom and the New Testament

Exploring Early Jewish and Christian Textual Cultures

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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In this book, Benjamin Wold builds on recent developments in the study of early Jewish wisdom literature and brings it to bear on the New Testament. This scholarship has been transformed by the discovery at Qumran of more than 900 manuscripts, including Hebrew wisdom compositions, many of which were published in critical editions beginning in the mid-1990s. Wold systematically explores the salient themes in the Jewish wisdom worldview found in these scrolls. He also presents detailed commentaries on translations and articulates the key debates regarding Qumran wisdom literature, highlighting the significance of wisdom within the context of Jewish textual culture. Wold's treatment of themes within the early Jewish and Christian textual cultures demonstrates that wisdom transcended literary form and genre. He shows how and why the publication of these ancient texts has engendered profound shifts in the study of early Jewish wisdom, and their relevance to current controversies regarding the interpretation of specific New Testament texts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-12-22
Mått158 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt530 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor250
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009305068

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'The fresh analysis of this significant study rests on the recent scholarly insistence that the majority of compositions found in the Qumran caves reflect wider intellectual and spiritual tendencies in late Second Temple Judaism than those associated with one sect alone. Through attention to fine details, Ben Wold discloses convincingly how several sections of James, Matthew and the Pauline Letters resonate with Jewish wisdom motifs broadly conceived. New light is shed on cosmology, perfection, poverty, humility, debt remission, flesh and household codes, both in well-known texts and also in those not so familiar. An exemplary presentation of how the Scrolls and the New Testament can illuminate one another.' George J. Brooke, Rylands Professor Emeritus of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, University of Manchester