The Oxford Handbook of Wisdom and the Bible

Will Kynes is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Samford University. He is the author of An Obituary for "Wisdom Literature": The Birth, Death, and Intertextual Reintegration of a Biblical Corpus and My Psalm Has Turned into Weeping: Job's Dialogue with the Psalms, which received the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2015. He has also edited, with Katharine Dell, Reading Job Intertextually, Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually, and Reading Proverbs Intertextually.

• 1. Wisdom and Wisdom Literature: Past, Present, and FutureWill Kynes (Samford University) PART I. THE CONCEPT OF WISDOM IN THE HEBREW BIBLE2. Advice: Wisdom, Skill, and SuccessJacqueline Vayntrub (Yale Divinity School)3. Epistemology: Wisdom, Knowledge, and Revelation Annette Schellenberg (University of Vienna)4. Virtue and Its Limits in the Wisdom Corpus: Character Formation, Disruption, and TransformationWilliam P. Brown (Columbia Theological Seminary)5. Theology: Creation, Wisdom, and CovenantRaymond C. Van Leeuwen (Eastern University)6. Order: Wisdom, Retribution, and SkepticismLudger Schwienhorst-Schönberger (University of Vienna) PART II. THE CONCEPT OF WISDOM IN RELATED CULTURES7. Wisdom in EgyptJoachim Quack (Heidelberg University)8. Mesopotamian Wisdom LiteratureYoram Cohen (Tel Aviv University) and Nathan Wasserman (Hebrew University)9. Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Jewish InterpretationArjen Bakker (University of Oxford)10. Wisdom in Dialogue with Greek CivilizationMichael C. Legaspi (Penn State University)11. Wisdom in the New Testament Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn (Regent College)12. Wisdom in Patristic Interpretation: Scriptural and Cosmic Unity in Athanasius' Exegesis of Proverbs 8:22Susannah Ticciati (King's College London)13. Wisdom in Rabbinic InterpretationAmram Tropper (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) PART III. THE CONCEPT OF WISDOM IN THE MODERN WORLD14. Wisdom in the Qur'an and the Islamic TraditionU. Isra Yazicioglu (St. Joseph's University)15. Wisdom in Jewish TheologyJonathan Schofer (University of Texas-Austin)16. Wisdom in Christian TheologyPaul S. Fiddes (University of Oxford)17. Personified Wisdom and Feminist TheologiesChristine Roy Yoder (Columbia Theological Seminary)18. Wisdom in NatureNorman Habel19. The Pervasiveness of Wisdom in (Con)textsJohn Ahn (Howard University School of Divinity) PART IV. THE CATEGORY OF WISDOM LITERATURE20. Solomon and the Solomonic CollectionKatharine J. Dell (University of Cambridge)21. The Social Setting of Wisdom LiteratureMark Sneed (Lubbock Christian College)22. Literary Genres of Old Testament WisdomMarkus Witte (Humboldt-University in Berlin)23. The Chronological Development of Wisdom LiteratureMarkus Saur (University of Kiel)24. Theology of WisdomTremper Longman III (Westmont College) PART V. WISDOM LITERATURE AND OTHER LITERATURE25. Wisdom InfluenceJohn L. McLaughlin (University of St. Michael's College)26. Law and Wisdom LiteratureJonathan P. Burnside (Bristol University)27. History and Wisdom LiteratureSuzanna R. Millar (University of Edinburgh)28. Prophecy and Wisdom LiteratureMark J. Boda (McMaster Divinity College)29. Apocalyptic and Wisdom LiteratureBennie H. Reynolds III (Milsaps College) PART VI. TEXTS30. ProverbsSamuel E. Balentine (Union Presbyterian Seminary)31. EcclesiastesTova L. Forti (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)32. JobScott C. Jones (Covenant College)33. Song of SongsAnselm C. Hagedorn (University of Osnabrück)34. Wisdom PsalmsW. H. Bellinger, Jr. (Baylor University)35. Ben SiraBenjamin G. Wright (Lehigh University)36. Wisdom of SolomonJames Aitken (University of Cambridge) and Ekaterina Matusova (University of Tübingen)37. The Pursuit of Wisdom at Qumran: Assessing the Classification <"Wisdom Literature> " and Its Application to the Dead Sea ScrollsMatthew Goff (Florida State University)

This volume of the Oxford Handbook series serves as an excellent entry into current conversations and debates surrounding wisdom and the wisdom tradition in the Hebrew Bible. Contributors come from a variety of vantage points, ranging from those who defend the traditional designation of wisdom as a genre to those who view this as an artificial designation imposed on disparate texts by modern scholarship. But the chapters are of consistently high quality while also still being highly readable. Scholars will come away from these chapters with much to debate, and students will gain a solid understanding of both the history and the current state of wisdom scholarship.