'Wisdom' and 'Torah' in the Book of Baruch

Full title
'Wisdom' and 'Torah' in the Book of Baruch
Research notes

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Reference type
Author(s)
Grätz, Sebastian
Editor(s)
Schipper, Bernd U.
Teeter, D. Andrew
Year
2013
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Wisdom and Torah: The Reception of ‘Torah’ in the Wisdom Literature of the Second Temple Period
Issue / Series Volume
163
Series Title
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
Abbreviated Series Name
JSJSup
Publisher
Brill
Place of Publication
Leiden
Pages
187-201
Work type
Label
26/05/2014
Abstract

A proper assessment of the manifold relationships that obtain between “wisdom” and “Torah” in the Second Temple Period has fascinated generations of interpreters. The essays of the present collection seek to understand this key relationship by focusing attention on specific instances of the reception of “Torah” in Wisdom literature and the shaping of Torah by wisdom. Taking the concepts of wisdom and torah in the various literary strata of the book of Deuteronomy as a point of departure, the remainder of the book examines the relationship between wisdom and Torah in Wisdom literature of the Second Temple period, including Proverbs, Qohelet, Ps 19 and 119, Baruch, Ben Sira, Wisdom, sapiential and rewritten scriptural texts from Qumran, and the Wisdom of Solomon.