Wisdom Discourse in the Ancient World

This book moves beyond the debate on 'wisdom literature', ongoing in Biblical Studies, demonstrating the productivity of 'wisdom' as a literary category. Featuring work by scholars of Egyptology, Classics, Biblical and Near Eastern Studies, it offers fresh perspectives on what makes a text 'wisdom'.

Autorentext

Sara De Martin received her PhD in Classics from King's College London. She has held lectureships in Ancient Languages, Classics, and Greek Literature at King's College London and Regent's Park College (Oxford). Her research focuses on archaic Greek elegy, gnomic literature, and Greek comedy.

Anna Lucia Furlan obtained her PhD in Classics at King's College London. She is currently Honorary Research Fellow (cultrice della materia) in the Religious Studies Department of the Catholic University in Milan. At present, her research interests mainly include ancient mystery cults and their reception (particularly Orphism) and early Christian literature.

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This book moves beyond the debate on 'wisdom literature', ongoing in Biblical Studies, demonstrating the productivity of 'wisdom' as a literary category. Featuring work by scholars of Egyptology, Classics, Biblical and Near Eastern Studies, it offers fresh perspectives on what makes a text 'wisdom'.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: 'wisdom literatures' and the discourse of wisdom, Sara De Martin and Anna Lucia Furlan; 2. Reframing wisdom through liminality in Akkadian literature, Ivo Ricardo dos Santos Martins; 3. Discourses on ethics and ethics of discourse in Ancient Egyptian wisdom literature, Ilaria Cariddi; 4. Battlefields as teaching spaces: seeing the divine, conversing and fighting in the Iliad and Mah bh rata, David Hodgkinson; 5. Configuring moral authority in archaic Greek poetry, Sara De Martin; 6. What of wisdom in the scrolls? Assessing the expansion of the wisdom literature category from the Hebrew Bible to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Charles P. Comerford; 7. Wisdom and a 'wisdom discourse': the classical-biblical dialectic in Aristobulus and Philo, Anna Lucia Furlan; 8. A wisdom tale: fable, the Life of Aesop, and the narrative use of wisdom genres, Ioannis M. Konstantakos; 9. (Un)exemplary teaching in Boethius' De consolatione Philosophiae, **Katherine Krauss; 10. Arabic wisdom literature as a template for reframing wisdom literature, Dimitri Gutas.