The Sage in Israel and the Ancient Near East

The Sage in Israel and the Ancient Near East

Ancient Iranian literature / James R. Russell -- The functions of the sage in the Egyptian royal court / Ronald J. Williams -- The sage in Mesopotamian palaces and royal courts / Roanld F.G. Sweet -- The scribe (and sage) in the royal court at Ugarit / Loren R. Mack-Fisher. - The social significance of Solomon as a patron of wisdom / Walter A. Brueggemann -- The sage in the Israelite royal court / R.N. Whybray -- Sages and scribes at the courts of ancient Iran / James R. Russell -- The sage in Hellenistic royal courts / John G. Gammie -- The sage in family and tribe / Carole R. Fontaine -- The sage in school and temple / André Lemaire -- The female sage in ancient Israel and in the biblical wisdom literature / Claudia V. Camp -- The sage in Proverbs / James L. Crenshaw -- The sage in the Psalms /.

Edited by John G. Gammie and Leo G. Perdue

The female "sage" in Mesopotamian literature (with an appendix on Egypt) / Rivkah Harris -- The sage in Egyptian literature / Ronald J. Williams -- The sage in Sumerian literature : a composite portrait / Samuel Noah Kramer -- The sage in Akkadian literature : a philological study / Ronald F.G. Sweet -- A survey and reading guide to the didactic literature of Ugarit : prolegomenon to a study on the sage / Loren R. Mack-Fisher -- The sage in ancient Iranian literature / James R. Russell -- The functions of the sage in the Egyptian royal court / Ronald J. Williams -- The sage in Mesopotamian palaces and royal courts / Roanld F.G. Sweet -- The scribe (and sage) in the royal court at Ugarit / Loren R. Mack-Fisher.

The social significance of Solomon as a patron of wisdom / Walter A. Brueggemann -- The sage in the Israelite royal court / R.N. Whybray -- Sages and scribes at the courts of ancient Iran / James R. Russell -- The sage in Hellenistic royal courts / John G. Gammie -- The sage in family and tribe / Carole R. Fontaine -- The sage in school and temple / André Lemaire -- The female sage in ancient Israel and in the biblical wisdom literature / Claudia V. Camp -- The sage in Proverbs / James L. Crenshaw -- The sage in the Psalms / Anthony R. Ceresko -- Job as a sage / Samuel Terrien -- The sage and pious wisdom in the Book of Job : the friends' perspective / Rainer Albertz -- The sage in Ecclesiastes and Qoheleth the sage / Roland E. Murphy.

The sage in the Pentateuch : soundings / Tikva Frymer-Kensky -- The sage in the Deuteronomistic history / P. Kyle McCarter Jr. -- The sage in the prophetic literature / Raymond C. Van Leeuwen -- The sage, the scribe, and scribalism in the chronicler's work / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- The sage in Hellenistic philosophical literature (399 B.C.E-199 C.E.) / George B. Kerferd -- The sage in select Hellenistic and Roman literary genres (philosophic epistles, political discourses, history, comedy, and romances) / Benjamin Fiore -- The sage in the apocalyptic and pseudepigraphic literature / John J. Collins -- The sage in Sirach / John G. Gammie -- The sage in the literature of Qumran : the functions of the Maśkîl / Carol A. Newsom.

The sage as mystic in the wisdom of Solomon / David Winston -- Jesus as sage : an innovating voice in common wisdom / Bernard Brandon Scott -- The early Rabbinic sage / Steven D. Fraade. -- From scribalism to rabbinism: perspectives on the emergence of classical Judaism / Michael Fishbone -- Cosmology and the social order in the wisdom tradition / Leo G. Perdue -- From prudentialism to apocalypticism: the houses of the sages amid the varying forms of wisdom / John G. Gammie.

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