The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls

This book explores how Jewish traditions of wisdom are being reshaped in the Greco-Roman period and demonstrates that reflection on time as an organizing principle is formative for emerging wisdom concepts, which are expressed by the enigmatic phrase rāz nihyeh.

Product details

• Authors: Arjen F Bakker, Arjen F. Bakker
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2023
• EAN: 9789004529748
• ISBN: 978-90-04-52974-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Studies on the Texts of the De
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism