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

Arjen F. Bakker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52974-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Arjen Bakker (PhD Leuven 2015) is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at the University of Groningen. He has published articles and co-edited volumes on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Wisdom Literature, Enoch, and the history of biblical scholarship.

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

1 Beyond the Limits of Wisdom

1 Rethinking Categories

2 The Sectarian Divide

2 Redefining the Sage

1 mēbîn

2 maśkîl

3 ḥākām

4 Conclusion

3 Continuous Study

1 By Day and by Night

2 Keeping Watch

3 Celestial Beings

4 Conclusion

4 The Dynamics of Revelation

1 The Body and Evil Forces

2 The Fleshly Spirit

3 Heavenly Light

4 Conclusion

5 Rāz Nihyeh

1 Turning to the Past

2 The Divisions of the Times

3 Divine Thinking

4 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Ancient Sources

Subject Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah ; 143
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	90-04-52974-8 / 9004529748
ISBN-13	978-90-04-52974-8 / 9789004529748
Zustand	Neuware