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Chargement... The Sword and the Stylus: An Introduction to Wisdom in the Age of Empirespar Leo G. Perdue
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This work is a thorough history of the social environments of scribalism from the early kingdoms of Egypt and Mesopotamia down through the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, Ptolemaic, Seleucid, and Roman periods. Many evangelicals will find plenty to chew on with his rejection of a fixed canon, the normativity of biblical texts, and divine inspiration as well as his rooting imagery of Madame Wisdom in Yahweh's alleged consort. This sweeping work on the social history of the scribes makes an important contribution for understanding the wisdom literature as shaped by the scribes.
The all-too-frequent disregard of historical and social contexts by many wisdom scholars often leads to the distortion of this literature and transforms its teachings into abstract ideas lacking any incarnation in the social and historical world of human living. Leo Perdue here argues from a sociohistorical approach that the proper understanding of ancient wisdom literature requires one to move out of the realm of philosophical idealism into the flesh and blood of human history. Arguing that wisdom was international in practice and outlook, Perdue traces the interaction between both ruling and subject nations and their sages who produced their respective cultures and their foundational worldviews. While not always easy to reconstruct, he acknowledges, the historical and social settings of texts provide necessary contexts for interpretation and engagement by later readers and hearers. Wisdom texts did not transcend their life settings to espouse values regardless of time and circumstance. Rather, they are located in a variety of historical events in an evolving nation, reflecting a vast array of different and changing moral systems, epistemologies, and religious understandings. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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