The Wisdom of the Aramaic Book of Ahiqar : Unravelling a Discourse of Uncertainty and Distress (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)

Bledsoe, Seth

Brill（2021/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 468 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004473119
• DDC分類 892.2

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The Wisdom of the Aramaic Book of Ahiqar offers a fresh reading of an ancient text that was an immensely popular work in antiquity. Despite the clear similarities with Proverbs and other sapiential traditions, Ahiqar challenges the more optimistic foundations of wisdom discourse, especially in couching its tension-filled instructions within a narrative of unjust suffering.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

 1 Identifying the Gaps in Ahiqar Scholarship

 2 Responding to the Gaps in Ahiqar Scholarship

 3 Outline of This Study

1 Locating Ahiqar

 Materiality, Language and Intertextuality

 1.1 Ahiqar In Situ: Material Aspects

 1.2 Ahiqar In Lingua: Linguistic and Scribal Aspects

 1.3 Ahiqar In Litteris: Legacy, Literary Milieu, and Intertextuality

 1.4 Conclusion: The Elephantine Instruction of Ahiqar

2 Unraveling Ahiqar

 Narratology and Discourse in the Story of Ahiqar

 2.1 Plot Tensions & Resolutions: Unraveling the Structural Threads of the Story

 2.2 Actants, Voices, and the Narrator/Audience Complexity: A Narratological Reading of Ahiqar

 2.3 Summary of Literary Analysis of Narrative

 2.4 Finishing the Story: The Missing End and the Later Witnesses

3 Delineating Ahiqar

 Structure and Style in the Sayings of Ahiqar

 3.1 Sayings-Types, Structures, and Stylistic Devices

 3.2 Coherence, Context, and Compositional Units: A Theory of Reading and Meaning

 3.3 Summary of Sayings

4 Cultivating an Ethic of Caution

 Practical Instruction and the Dangers of Speech

 4.1 The Synchrony of Proper Speech

 4.2 Cultivating a Cautious Attitude

 4.3 The Pragmatic Value of Contentment and Humility

 4.4 Conclusion

5 Wisdom from Below

 Financial Instruction and Social Status

 5.1 Loans and Other Financial Matters

 5.2 Poverty and Wealth

 5.3 Labor and Servitude

 5.4 Wisdom from Below: Synthesis, Story, and Rhetorical Effect

6 Constructing and Contesting Social Domains

 The Familial Discourse of Loyalty and Reciprocity

 6.1 The Double-Sided Domains of Family and Friendship

 6.2 The Estranged Brother and the Familial Foreigner

 6.3 Authority & Hierarchy: A Competition for Favor

 6.4 Conclusion: Constructing and Contesting "Ahiqar" at Elephantine

7 Many Are the Stars

 Humanity, the Gods and Speculative Wisdom

 7.1 Humanity

 7.2 The Gods

 7.3 At the Intersection of Humanity and the Gods: The King in Ahiqar

 7.4 Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index