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The inexperienced person and the journey to wisdom in the books of proverbs
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ISBN: 9791259860118 Year: 2022 Publisher: Roma Pontifical Biblical Institute

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Ägyptologische "Binsen"-Weisheiten IV : Hieratisch des Neuen Reiches, Akteure, Formen und Funktionen, Akten der internationalen Tagung in der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur
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ISBN: 9783515133333 351513333X Year: 2022 Publisher: Stuttgart: Steiner,

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Clearchus of Soli : text, translation, and discussion
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ISBN: 9780367706814 0367706814 Year: 2022 Publisher: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,

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Ancient wisdom : An introduction to sayings collections
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ISBN: 1467464031 9781467464031 Year: 2022 Publisher: Grand Rapids William B. Eerdmans

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This book surveys and analyzes twenty-seven major collections of wisdom sayings from antiquity, including texts from ancient Egypt, the ancient Near East, ancient Israel and early Judaism, early Christianity, and the Greco-Roman world. Through the diversity of these selections, readers are exposed to wisdom literature from a wide array of historical, cultural, and linguistic settings, which unfolds into a larger understanding of how different ancient peoples articulated a gnomic understanding of life. Throughout this useful guide, Walter Wilson keeps a constant eye on the relation of the wisdom texts to the worlds from which they emerged—paying close attention to each text’s distinctive thematic profile and how its moral agenda was mapped onto the reader’s social landscape. Where appropriate, he discusses affinities between the different collections and draws conclusions about ancient wisdom literature as a genre. For further study, each entry includes a short bibliography directing the reader to an up-to-date translation of the collection in question and other relevant secondary texts, making this an ideal starting point for anyone studying wisdom literature of the ancient world.


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A polyglot edition of the book of Ben Sira with a synopsis of the Hebrew manuscripts
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ISBN: 9042943661 9789042943650 9042943653 9789042943667 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leuven Paris Bristol, CT Peeters

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In Jerusalem of the early second century, a Jewish teacher, later widely, and simply, known as Ben Sira, wrote, in contemporary Hebrew, a collection of proverbs designed to advise his co-religionists how to express and maintain their Jewishness and values in the face of a dominant Hellenistic culture. His proverbs were later translated into Greek by his grandson. Because the early Church, but not Rabbinic Judaism, included the book in its scriptural canon, the original Hebrew gradually gave way to the Greek, Latin and Syriac versions and was virtually lost in the late medieval and early modern periods. The late nineteenth-century discoveries from the Cairo Genizah restored Hebrew versions of much of the book. Academic use of Ben Sira’s work is now greatly facilitated by this scientific polyglot of all four versions, originally planned and initiated by Friedrich V. Reiterer at the University of Salzburg, and now brought to fruition by the painstaking scholarly efforts of Renate Egger-Wenzel, who has also provided a text edition of the Hebrew manuscripts and a guide to the project and to the volume.


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Ancient wisdom : an introduction to sayings collections
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ISBN: 9780802875433 9781467464031 Year: 2022 Publisher: Grand Rapids William B. Eerdmans

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This book surveys and analyzes twenty-seven major collections of wisdom sayings from antiquity, including texts from ancient Egypt, the ancient Near East, ancient Israel and early Judaism, early Christianity, and the Greco-Roman world. Through the diversity of these selections, readers are exposed to wisdom literature from a wide array of historical, cultural, and linguistic settings, which unfolds into a larger understanding of how different ancient peoples articulated a gnomic understanding of life. Throughout this useful guide, Walter Wilson keeps a constant eye on the relation of the wisdom texts to the worlds from which they emerged—paying close attention to each text’s distinctive thematic profile and how its moral agenda was mapped onto the reader’s social landscape. Where appropriate, he discusses affinities between the different collections and draws conclusions about ancient wisdom literature as a genre. For further study, each entry includes a short bibliography directing the reader to an up-to-date translation of the collection in question and other relevant secondary texts, making this an ideal starting point for anyone studying wisdom literature of the ancient world.

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