Obituary for 'Wisdom Literature' - The Birth, Death, and Intertextual Reintegration of a Biblical Corpus

This work proposes a radical solution to the problems plaguing the interpretation of Wisdom literature. Kynes identifies the historical origin of the category and critically assesses its development and distorting effect on interpretation.

About the author

Will Kynes is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Samford University. He is the author of My Psalm Has Turned into Weeping: Job's Dialogue with the Psalms (de Gruyter, 2012), which received the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2015, and co-editor, with Katharine Dell, of Reading Job Intertextually (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013), Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2014), and Reading Proverbs Intertextually (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019).

Summary

This work proposes a radical solution to the problems plaguing the interpretation of Wisdom literature. Kynes identifies the historical origin of the category and critically assesses its development and distorting effect on interpretation.

Additional text

Kynes'An Obituary for "Wisdom Literature" is invaluable in terms of how it traces the genealogy of wisdom

Product details

• Authors: Will Kynes, Will (Assistant Professor of Theology Kynes
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780198777373
• ISBN: 978-0-19-877737-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; EDUCATION / General, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Germany, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Old Testaments, Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics