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This book moves beyond the debate on 'wisdom literature', ongoing in biblical studies, to demonstrate 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'.
This interdisciplinary volume widens the scope of the investigation into 'wisdom literature', chronologically, geographically, and methodologically. Readers are given insights into how the label 'wisdom' contributes to our understanding of diverse literary forms across time periods and cultural contexts. In the volume's introduction, the editors consider 'wisdom' as a 'discourse', shifting the focus from the debate on whether 'wisdom literature' is a genre to the properties of the texts, namely exploring what makes a text 'wisdom'. This offers a methodological backdrop against which the diverse approaches of the single authors productively coexist. The chapters examine texts that are the products of different ancient cultures, with several of them bridging diverse cultural, social, and chronological contexts. By sampling how different methodologies interact both within individual interpretative efforts and in wider attempts to understand cross-cultural literary phenomena, this volume also contributes new perspectives to the scholarship on ancient literary genres.
Wisdom Discourse in the Ancient World will interest both students and scholars of the ancient Near East, Egyptology, classical studies, biblical studies, and theology and religious studies, particularly those working on wisdom literature in antiquity. It will also appeal to readers with an interest in comparative approaches and genre studies more broadly.
Contents
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 Mahābhārata, 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.
