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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"--
List of contents
Introduction; 1. Cosmology and eschatology; 2. Universalism & particularism; 3. Wisdom as action; 4. Poverty and humility; 5. Debt remission in the Matthean Lord's prayer; 6. Paul: Spirit, flesh, and the household; Conclusion; Bibliography.
About the author
Benjamin Wold is Associate Professor of Early Judaism and Christianity at Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin. His research has been supported by awards from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Wold is the author of Women, Men, and Angels and 4QInstruction: Divisions and Hierarchies (2018).
Summary
In the last two decades a profound shift has taken place in how we understand the category of Jewish 'wisdom'. This book explores how diverse writings found at Qumran and in the New Testament are mutually illuminating and taken together demonstrate participation in a common wisdom worldview.
