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Kohelet gehört zu den großen Denkern aus dem antiken Juda. Seine Weisheitsschrift ist eine Herausforderung, denn das Nebeneinander der Einsicht in die Flüchtigkeit der Wirklichkeit und des Aufrufs zur Lebensfreude führt zu einer Spannung, die sich nicht einfach auflösen lässt. In einer vollständigen Auslegung des Koheletbuches wird dieser Spannung nachgegangen und dabei das anthropologische und theologische Profil des Koheletbuches erschlossen. Die Auseinandersetzung mit Kohelets Denken zeigt sein zentrales Anliegen, angesichts der alles bestimmenden Flüchtigkeit dem Menschen einen Weg zur Annahme der von Gott geschenkten Lebenszeit zu weisen und die Mühen des Lebens mit Gelassenheit anzunehmen. Das Koheletbuch gibt einem weisheitlichen Denken Raum, das die Möglichkeiten des Menschen erkennt, aber in gleicher Weise um seine Grenzen weiß. Dieses Wissen führt Kohelet nicht zur Verzweiflung oder in Krisen, sondern bildet die Grundlage dafür, das Leben mit Freude als eine Gabe Gottes annehmen zu können. Die damit rekonstruierte Denkfigur hat nicht nur für die anthropologischen und theologischen Linien innerhalb der Hebräischen Bibel hohe Relevanz, sondern kann auch theologischen Diskursen der Gegenwart weiterführende Impulse geben. Kohelet was one of the great thinkers of ancient Judah. His empirical studies led him to the insight that, although there is no permanence for man, that is no reason for resignation. Instead, the present can be understood as a scope of action given to man by God. This volume elucidates the anthropological and theological profile of this work with a complete interpretation and by providing helpful contextualization.

Anthropology. --- Kohelet. --- Theology. --- Wisdom Literature.

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In Proverbs, wisdom is personified as a woman who is with God at the creation of the world, delighting in what God has made. In Job, God appears in theophany and describes the wonders of the earth and heavens. There are thus revealed detailed descriptions of God’s work in creation in the wisdom literature. Key themes that emerge from these passages are the foundation of the earth, its division from the heavens and the waters, God’s provision of all of nature as well as human and animal life, God’s relationship to the world, and the ethics and morality of our human response. There is also a wealth of covenant language that includes creation and links up with wisdom texts as well. This is epitomized in Noah’s covenant with God and the sign of the rainbow.In The Lord by Wisdom Founded the Earth, Katharine J. Dell illuminates the Old Testament theological themes of creation and covenant, interpreting them through the lens of wisdom. Dell shifts attention from the Genesis accounts of creation to allow for a fresh reading from texts in Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes. She subsequently assesses Genesis and certain "creation" Psalms for similarities and differences. This approach allows the creation theme to be prioritized in new ways and then brought into dialogue with covenant ideas, leading to a reconsideration of Genesis 9, with its profound image of the rainbow as a sign within creation of the covenant between God and the world, and various prophetic texts—passages wherein the close symbiosis of covenant with creation has been overlooked. Furthermore, a "cosmic covenant" emerges over time, a covenant of peace that will characterize the eschatological age, as found in some later prophetic literature.Dell contends that wisdom literature is often misrepresented for its lack of reference to covenant, demonstrating key relations through intertextual parallels from the Psalms and Deuteronomy. The figure of Wisdom in Proverbs 3 and 8, in the emphases on relationship and communication, anticipates the ultimate merging of themes of wisdom, creation, covenant, and torah in later apocryphal texts. Likewise, Dell also suggests that Solomon emerges as the canonical figurehead of wisdom’s "covenant" with humanity and the world.

Wisdom --- Creation --- Covenants --- Wisdom literature --- Biblical teaching --- Criticism, interpretation, etc

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Judaism --- Wisdom --- Wisdom literature --- History --- Religious aspects --- Judaism --- Criticism, interpretation, etc

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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.

Wisdom literature --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible. --- History and criticism --- Ba-yon Tipan --- Bagong Tipan --- Jaji ma Hungi --- Kainē Diathēkē --- New Testament --- Nouveau Testament --- Novo Testamento --- Novum Testamentum --- Novyĭ Zavet --- Novyĭ Zavi︠e︡t Gospoda nashego Īisusa Khrista --- Novyĭ Zavit --- Nuevo Testamento --- Nuovo Testamento --- Nye Testamente --- Perjanjian Baru --- Dhamma sacʻ kyamʻʺ --- Injīl