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| Titre : | Israel's Wisdom Literature : Its Bearing on Theology and the History of Religion |
| Auteurs : | Oliver Shaw Rankin, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | New York [USA] : Schocken Books, 1969 |
| Format : | xvi + 272 p. |
| Note générale : |
This book forms part of the Kerr Lectures delivered in Trinity College, Glasgow, 1933-36.
First published in 1936. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | BX/E (Introduction aux livres de sagesse) |
| Résumé : |
The ancient Near East developed early a type of writing that deals with human life and its personal, social, political, and religious problems.
The source of this “wisdom” is neither divine nor philosophical reason, but the actual experience of life. “Wisdom” teaches the good life, love and regard for one’s fellow man, self-respect, contentment, pursuit of knowledge, and the “fear of the Lord.” Wisdom literature is represented in the Hebrew Bible by Proverbs, Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth), a number of Psalms, and Job (the last being a challenge to the self-sufficiency of human knowledge). The Biblical Apocrypha preserve in this literary form the Wisdom of Jesus Sirach (Joshua ben Sira), called Ecclesiasticus in the English Versions, and the Wisdom of Solomon. Rankin treats these works against the background of Near Eastern thought as documents of Hebrew humanism and discusses in detail “Wisdom’s” view on the nature of man, free will, religious individualism and universalism, the problem of evil and the harmony of the cosmos. The author demonstrates how ethical postulates and religious problems were clarified in the crucible of rational reflection, and how “Wisdom” influenced both Judaism and early Christianity. The content of most of the book was delivered by Rankin as the Kerr Lectures, 1933-36, at Trinity College, Glasgow. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface - I. The Wisdom literature, the documents of Hebrew humanism. God as creator and the emergent problems: 1. God as creator 2. Theodicy 3. Providence - II. The ideas of individual responsability and of reward and retribution in the OT - III. Theories of rewrad and retribution in the OT and in later Judaism - IV. The development of the Deuteronomist theory in later Judaism - V. The belief in a future-life - Its growth and development in Israel - VI. The belief in a future life - The question of its appearance in Job and the "Job-Psalms" (Ps. 73 and 49) - VII. An inquiry into the reason of the lateness of the development in Israel of a belief in a future life. (Resistance to the idea in pre-exilic Israel) - VIII. Post-exilic monotheism and the idea of immortality - IX. The figure of wisdom - Index |
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| Code-barres | Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité |
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| BX/E 005 | BX/E 005 | Livre | Bibliothèque principale | Livres empruntables | Prêt possible Disponible |
