Theologies in Conflict in 4 Ezra

Wisdom Debate and Apocalyptic Solution
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-12969-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 130, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

Recent scholarship on 4 Ezra has taken two divergent approaches, the first reading the dialogues between Ezra and Uriel as a reflection of theological debates in the author's time, and the second focusing on the psychological development of the protagonist. Combining the two approaches, this book offers a new interpretation of the dialogues as a literary representation of a debate between covenantal and eschatological wisdom, two branches of Jewish wisdom that emerged in the late Second Temple period. The inconclusive quality of the dialogues indicates the author's dissatisfaction with Uriel's attempt at a rational theodicy. Ezra's subsequent transformation points to the symbolic visions as the locus of the author's apocalyptic solution to the intractable theological problems raised in the dialogues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hogan, Karina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Karina Martin Hogan, Ph.D. (2002) in Bible, University of Chicago Divinity School, is Assistant Professor of Theology at Fordham University. She has published articles on 4 Ezra and the Wisdom of Solomon.