Author: Arjen F. Bakker Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004537791 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
This book contributes to the rethinking of the Dead Sea Scrolls as an essential and integral part of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period. The Qumran manuscripts attest to the reconfiguration of Jewish wisdom concepts in this period. Strikingly, reflection on time as the organizing principle behind all of reality is formative for these emerging concepts, which are expressed by the enigmatic phrase rāz nihyeh. The secret of time invites us to venture beyond existing categorizations and explore a rich conceptual framework that is manifested across a wide range of texts, beyond generic categories, and overcoming the sectarian divide.
Author: Arjen F. Bakker Publisher: ISBN: 9789004529748 Category : Dead Sea scrolls Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book explores how Jewish traditions of wisdom are being reshaped in the Greco-Roman period and demonstrates that reflection on time as an organizing principle is formative for emerging wisdom concepts, which are expressed by the enigmatic phrase rāz nihyeh.
Author: Will Kynes Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0190661267 Category : Bibles Languages : en Pages : 713
Book Description
"This volume both reflects on the contested nature of the Wisdom Literature category and takes advantage of the opportunities it presents for reconsidering the concept of wisdom more independently from it. The first half explores wisdom as a concept, with essays on its relationship to skill, epistemology, virtue, theology, and order in the Hebrew Bible, its meaning in related cultures, from Egypt and Mesopotamia to Patristic and Rabbinic interpretation, and, finally, its continuing relevance the modern world, including in Islamic, Jewish, and Christian thought, and from feminist, environmental, and other contextual perspectives. The latter half considers "Wisdom Literature" as a category. Scholars address its relation to the Solomonic Collection, its social setting, literary genres, chronological development, and theology. Wisdom Literature's relation to other biblical literature (law, history, prophecy, apocalyptic, and the broad question of "Wisdom influence") is then discussed before separate chapters on the texts commonly associated with the category. Contributors take a variety of approaches to the current debates surrounding the viability and value of the Wisdom Literature category and its proper relationship to the concept of wisdom in the Hebrew Bible. Though the organization of the volume highlights the independence of wisdom as concept from "Wisdom Literature" as category, seeking to counter the lack of attention given to this question in the traditional approach, the inclusion of both topics together in the same volume reflects their continued interconnection. As such, this handbook both represents the current state of Wisdom scholarship and sets the stage for future developments"--
Author: Wout J. van Bekkum Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004527001 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 347
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This is a comprehensive edition of Hebrew hymns composed by Eleazar the Babylonian, a prolific composer and scholar who lived in 13th-century Baghdad. His poetic language and style show much affinity with contemporary Sufism.
Author: Sara Adnan Rahib Al Shaikh Publisher: ISBN: 9789948844600 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 108
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Zara had almost gotten used to her new well-organized life after she had been forced to work for her parents. She had gotten up on a fairly normal day for a meeting with the minister of health - at the ministry. When he doesn't show up to their meeting, Zara finds herself led down a daunting path of secret layers and strange events. With the help of her new-found friends, Adam, Isaac and Aisha, she is taken on a journey to strange places in search for truth amongst The Dead Sea Scrolls, the pharaohs, and long-gone prophets. They follow the clues that tell them of the burial place of a secret device that could either save or destroy the world as they know it. The hunt not only unlocks the secrets of the world, but also help Zara go back to her true self.
Author: James VanderKam Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 080286435X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 277
Book Description
This perennially bestselling book on the Dead Sea Scrolls by one of the fields most respected scholars has now been revised and updated to reflect scholarship and debates since the book was first published in 1994.
Author: Arjen F. Bakker
Author: Arjen F. Bakker
Author: Will Kynes
Author: Wout J. van Bekkum
Author: Sara Adnan Rahib Al Shaikh
Author: James VanderKam