The Relation of the Minor Prophets to the Wisdom Tradition(s)

2021 ◽  
pp. 212-224
Author(s):  
John L. McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Wisdom Tradition ◽  
Isolated Point ◽  
Minor Prophets

This essay analyzes the commonalities between the Minor Prophets and biblical Wisdom Tradition(s). After briefly addressing whether Proverbs, Job, and Qoheleth constitute a unified “Wisdom Literature” whose writers are distinct from the authors of other bodies of First Testament literature, this essay outlines three methodological criteria for identifying influence from one corpus to the other. Rather than examine every (often isolated) point of contact between the two groups of books, the essay discusses clusters of wisdom elements in Hosea, Jonah, and Habakkuk that point to wisdom influence in each, as well as some prophetic elements in Proverbs and Job. Each book has adapted material from the other body of literature to its own purposes.

The Ancestry of Wisdom Literature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Kynes
Keyword(s):  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Careful Scrutiny ◽  
The Common ◽  
Wisdom Tradition

In order to identify the origins of the modern scholarly Wisdom tradition, this chapter evaluates the purported early “vestiges” of the category. These are (1) early views on the structure and order of the canonical books; (2) the association of a group of books with Solomon; (3) the ancient recognition of shared traits between books; and (4) the title Wisdom applied to several texts. This evidence does not, however, justify the common assertion that the Wisdom category has an ancient pedigree. To the degree that a category approaching the modern one existed at all, its contents and definition differed significantly, making it both quantitatively and qualitatively different from the current category. This indicates that Wisdom as we know it is instead a modern invention, and the accuracy of its depiction of ancient phenomena therefore merits more careful scrutiny than it has yet received.

Textual History of the Minor Prophets

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
W. Edward Glenny
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Textual Tradition ◽  
Masoretic Text ◽  
Textual History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complete Translation ◽  
Minor Prophets

This essay discusses the textual history of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew manuscripts and the Versions, excluding Qumran. The most important textual tradition for the Minor Prophets is the Hebrew Masoretic Text tradition from the medieval period (MT), which continues the earlier proto-masoretic textual tradition that is represented in the Qumran scrolls and is the basis of the translations of the Targums and Peshitta. The Septuagint (LXX) is the most important ancient Version of the Hebrew Bible, because it was the first complete translation and because its Hebrew source differed considerably from the other textual witnesses. Other important Versions of the Hebrew Bible are the Targums, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Latin Vulgate.

scholarly journals Modern Theories of Wisdom: Literature Review

2020 ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Veronika Kondratieva ◽  
Illia Zarubin
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
General Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Cultures

The article presents a theoretical analysis of modern theories of wisdom, considers the formation and essence of the concept of wisdom in psychology. At the end of the twentieth century, the interest of psychologists in the subject of wisdom began to grow. Wisdom as a concept is integral to any society, culture and time, it reveals those qualities of personality that help a person to be realized. The concept of wisdom requires theoretical justification and empirical research. In general, there are two main concepts of wisdom: one affirms the affective qualities more or less with the cognitive, inherent in man; the other focuses precisely on cognitive and reflexive abilities, ignoring emotional life. This typification has proved itself in several planes. In the history of philosophy, the understanding of wisdom had both an affective and a cognitive character, represented by East and West. Empirical studies of implicit concepts of wisdom conducted in recent years indicate the variability of perception of wisdom. In the East, the concept of wisdom is less analytical and more psychological than in the West, which requires an understanding not only of the intellectual, but also of the sensual (emotions, intuition, etc.). Cross-cultural empirical studies confirm the general difference in the perception of wisdom in different cultures. The influence of age on the manifestations of wisdom in humans should be noted separately. Research has shown that age negatively affects the intellectual component of wisdom, but is neutral to procedural knowledge. On the one hand, with age a person acquires experience that can interpret and extract new procedural knowledge from him. On the other hand, the fact that a person has life experience does not determine a person’s qualitative interpretation of what happened to him. The age factor cannot be decisive in becoming wise.

The Roots of Solomonic ‘Wisdom’ in the Pre-exilic Period (Focusing on Proverbs)

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-111
Author(s):  
Katharine J. Dell
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Near East ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Relative Dating ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Wisdom Tradition ◽  
Relationship Of

The concern of this chapter is to explore the possibility of a vibrant and living wisdom tradition in the pre-exilic period. Whilst this used to be a ‘given’ of scholarship, the tendency towards later and later dating in recent scholarship has led to the need to reaffirm such ideas. Three approaches are taken—first a literary-historical one; second a theological one, and finally a comparative one. The focus is on the book of Proverbs, since it is arguments on the relative dating of parts of Proverbs that are of major concern, as well as the wider issue of whether the thought-world of wisdom was in the consciousness of early Israelites. It is found that there is a closer relationship of ‘wisdom literature’ to mainstream Yahwism than has often been thought with the key theological theme of God as creator providing an essential link. Links of the theological outlook of Proverbs with other parts of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and with the ancient cultures of the ancient Near East confirm these conclusions.

Zephaniah

2021 ◽  
pp. 498-510
Author(s):  
Cat Quine
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
The Other ◽  
Book Of The Twelve ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
Intertextual Connections ◽  
Day Of Yahweh ◽  
The City ◽  
Minor Prophets

This essay discusses the key topics for the study of the book of Zephaniah, including structure, authorship, date, central themes, Zephaniah’s relationship with the Book of the Twelve, and the Hebrew Bible. The themes explored include the Day of Yahweh, illicit cult practice, the contrast between corrupt elite classes and a humble remnant, the city, redemption, and restoration. Many of these themes are found in the other Minor Prophets, but they find unique expression in Zephaniah, carefully crafted to convey the prophet’s message. The essay ends with a reflection on how to read Zephaniah—how to make sense of the individuality of the book among the plurality of intertextual connections found within it.

scholarly journals Gaan na die mier, kyk na sy weë en word wys: Metafoor of paradigma?

2013 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Buitendag
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Epistemic Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Constructive Empiricism ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
The One ◽  
Point Of Departure

Go to the ant, consider her ways, and be wise. Metaphor or paradigm? This article takes as its point of departure two citations. The one is from Marshall and Zohar’s contention that the wave-particle dualism is more than a metaphor and the other is from Clayton claiming that indeterminacy was not merely a temporary epistemic problem, but reflected an inherent indeterminacy of the physical world itself. What does it mean if it is not a mere way of speaking? The author of this article departs from the premise that the task of systematic theology is the endeavour to understand reality and that this is a collective enterprise together with other sciences as well. A constructive empiricism could indeed lead to an understanding of reality where reality is more than merely idealistically conceived. Truth is therefore to be replaced with a pragmatic, but value-laden concept of understanding or comprehension. This has the effect that both epistemology and ontology have to be revisited and subsequently panentheism too. The argument finds its niche in Old Testament wisdom literature and Proverbs 6:6 forms the lens of reference. The late South African ethologist Eugène Marais’s epic work, The Soul of the Ant, is applied to illustrate such a proposed epistemic community.

scholarly journals Hollow quasi-Fatou components of quasiregular maps

2016 ◽  
Vol 162 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-574
Author(s):  
DANIEL A. NICKS ◽  
DAVID J. SIXSMITH
Keyword(s):  
Entire Function ◽  
Julia Set ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transcendental Entire Function ◽  
Connected Component ◽  
Fatou Component ◽  
Multiply Connected ◽  
Complementary Component ◽  
Fatou Components ◽  
Isolated Point

AbstractWe define a quasi-Fatou component of a quasiregular map as a connected component of the complement of the Julia set. A domain in ℝd is called hollow if it has a bounded complementary component. We show that for each d ⩾ 2 there exists a quasiregular map of transcendental type f: ℝd → ℝd with a quasi-Fatou component which is hollow.Suppose that U is a hollow quasi-Fatou component of a quasiregular map of transcendental type. We show that if U is bounded, then U has many properties in common with a multiply connected Fatou component of a transcendental entire function. On the other hand, we show that if U is not bounded, then it is completely invariant and has no unbounded boundary components. We show that this situation occurs if J(f) has an isolated point, or if J(f) is not equal to the boundary of the fast escaping set. Finally, we deduce that if J(f) has a bounded component, then all components of J(f) are bounded.

Recent Trends in the Study of Early Jewish Wisdom Literature: The Contribution of 4QInstruction and Other Qumran Texts

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Goff
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Second Temple ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Second Temple Period ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Wisdom Tradition

This essay reviews major trends in the study of the Qumran texts commonly identified as wisdom literature. Among these texts, 4QInstruction and the so-called book of Mysteries have received the most attention. These compositions are making a significant contribution to our understanding of the Jewish wisdom tradition during the late Second Temple period. A key achievement of recent scholarship on the Qumran wisdom literature is the recognition that Early Jewish sapiential texts could draw on traditions that have little to do with the older wisdom of Proverbs, including in particular apocalypticism and the Torah. The Dead Sea Scrolls illustrate that there is a wide range of diversity among the Early Jewish wisdom texts.

scholarly journals Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Jewish Interpretation

2021 ◽  
pp. 140-154
Author(s):  
Arjen Bakker
Keyword(s):  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Second Temple ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Second Temple Judaism ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Hellenistic World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Wisdom Tradition

This article argues that wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls is not a continuation of the biblical Wisdom tradition. What we see in the scrolls is rather a reinterpretation of biblical Wisdom Literature within new conceptual frameworks and within the broader context of the interpretive culture of Second Temple Judaism. One of the main aspects of this new version of wisdom is that it is hidden and not available to just anyone. The emphasis on mystery and the hidden structures of time is shared by Wisdom texts from Qumran and from the Hellenistic world. Wisdom is omnipresent across Jewish traditions as it is integrated with Torah, revelation, and prayer. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has made clear how deeply embedded wisdom was across genres and traditions.

The Personified Wisdom in the Wisdom Literature

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Peter Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
The Third ◽  
God's Word ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Wisdom Tradition ◽  
The Universe

This chapter analyzes the wisdom tradition in the biblical Book of Proverbs, which goes back around the third century BCE. Wisdom emerged prior to the creation of the world, before the universe had taken on its final form. The chapter emphasizes that Wisdom is to be understood as a person and even enthroned on a cloud throne in heaven. But in contrast to Proverbs, Wisdom comes forth from the mouth of God and is obviously God's word, which is nevertheless interpreted as a person, since she lives in heaven, sits on a throne, compasses the heavenly and earthly vaults, and rules over the land, seas, and all people. The chapter also talks about Wisdom or the holy spirit as gifts from God to the righteous person.

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