Conflicted Boundaries in Wisdom and Apocalypticism

Download or read book Conflicted Boundaries in Wisdom and Apocalypticism written by Lawrence Mitchell Wills and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion that wisdom and apocalypticism represent fundamentally different and mutually exclusive categories of genre and worldview in early Jewish and Christian literature persists in current scholarship. The essays in this volume, the work of the Wisdom and Apocalypticism Group of the Society of Biblical Literature, challenge that generally held view as they explore the social locations and scholarly constructions of these literatures and discover an ancient reality of more porous categories and complex interrelationships. The volume draws on a broad range of Jewish and Christian texts, including 1 Enoch, Sirach, 4QInstruction, Psalms of Solomon, James, Revelation, and Barnabas. --From publisher's description.