"When the Morning Stars Sang": Essays in Honor of Choon Leong Seow on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday

Published by De Gruyter 2018

"When the Morning Stars Sang"

Essays in Honor of Choon Leong Seow on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday

Edited by: Scott C. Jones and Christine Roy Yoder

Volume 500 in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110428148

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About this book

During a moment of exponential growth and change in the fields of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies, it is an opportune time to take stock of the state wisdom and wisdom literature with twenty-three essays honoring the consummate Weisheitslehrer, Professor Choon Leong Seow, Vanderbilt, Buffington, Cupples Chair in Divinity and Distinguished Professor of Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt University.

This Festschrift is tightly focused around wisdom themes, and all of the essays are written by senior scholars in the field. They represent not only the great diversity of approaches in the field of wisdom and wisdom literature, but also the remarkable range of interests and methods that have characterized Professor Seow's own work throughout the decades, including the theology of the wisdom literature, the social world of Ecclesiastes, the history of consequences of the book of Job, the poetry of the Psalms, and Northwest Semitic Inscriptions, just to name a few.

Author / Editor information

Scott C. Jones, Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA and Christine Roy Yoder, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.

Reviews

"Merci aux deux editeurs scientifiques pour ce collectif utile a l’exegese du courant sapientiel dans la Bible, principalement Job, et pour l’histoire de sa reception."
F. Mies in: Nouvelle Revue Théologique 140/4 (2018), 656-657

"What is most encouraging in this wide-ranging collection of essays is how much constructive use is made of ancient Near Eastem texts and traditions, coupled with an open-mindedness and a willingness to re-exarnine previous scholarship. Besides its intrinsic merits, it could certainly be used as an introduction for students working on the wisdom texts of the Old Testament."
Wilfried Watson in: Folia Orientalia LV (2018), 447-449

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
An Intellectual Biography and the Curriculum Vitae of Choon Leong Seow Christopher Hooker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Choon Leong Seow: An Appreciation William H. C. Propp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
I: Job
The Speaker in Job 28 Michael V. Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Metaphors of Illness and Wellness in Job Edward L. Greenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Blessing and Justice in Job: In/commensurable? J. Gerald Janzen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Job Spoke the Truth about God (Job 42:7–8) Thomas Krüger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
The Kerygma of the Book of Job Manfred Oeming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
The Reception of Job in the Dead Sea Scrolls Carol A. Newsom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
The Book of Job and Two Twentieth-Century British Oratorios Katharine J. Dell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
II: Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
Proverbs 1–9 as Instruction for a Young Man and for “Everyman” Richard J. Clifford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
From Epistemology to Wisdom Theology: The Composition of Proverbs 10 Bernd U. Schipper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
On יֵשׁ of Reflection in the Book of Proverbs Agustinus Gianto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Why is it So Difficult to Read Ecclesiastes? Stuart Weeks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
A Rhetoric of Indecision: Reflections on God as Judge in Qoheleth James L. Crenshaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Solomon’s Wise Words in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
When Wisdom Fails William P. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
III: Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon
The Formation of the Scribal Self in Ben Sira Judith H. Newman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Translation, Reception, and the Historiography of Early Judaism: The Wisdom of Ben Sira and Old Greek Job as Case Studies Benjamin G. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
God and Evil in the Wisdom of Solomon Markus Witte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
IV: Wisdom’s Echoes in the Hebrew Bible and Semitic Inscriptions
The Ambivalence of Human Wisdom: Genesis 2–3 as a Sapiential Text Konrad Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
What is the Place of Wisdom and Torah in the Psalter? Hermann Spieckermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Traces of an Original Allegorical Meaning of the Song of Songs Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Royal Inscriptions in the Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia: Reflections on Presence, Function, and Self-Critique Peter Machinist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Agriculture and Wisdom: The Case of the “Gezer Calendar” Raymond C. Van Leeuwen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Index of Ancient Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: All those interested in wisdom and psalms; Israel and the ancient Near East; apocrypha and pseudepigrapha
Pages
- Front matter: 18
- Main content: 389
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
Keywords: Wisdom; wisdom literature; wisdom theology; reception history

eBook

Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9783110428148

Hardcover

Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9783110425208