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

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52974-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 143, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

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 raz nihyeh.

Autoren/Hrsg.

F Bakker, Arjen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

1 Beyond the Limits of Wisdom

1 Rethinking Categories

2 The Sectarian Divide

2 Redefining the Sage

1 mebîn

2 maskîl

3 hakam

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 Raz 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.