Scribes, Sages and Seers: The Sage in the Eastern Mediterranean World

Contents: Sages, scribes, and seers in Israel and the ancient Near East : an introduction / Leo G. Perdue -- Scribes, sages, and seers in ancient Egypt. Knowledge and knowledgeable men in ancient Egypt : queries and arguments about an unsettled issue / Thomas Schneider -- Scribes, sages, and seers in ancient Mesopotamia. Scribes and wisdom in ancient Mesopotamia / Bendt Alster. Tales of two sages : towards an image of the " wise man" in Akkadian writings / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- Scribes, sages, and seers in Ugarit and Syria. Scribes, sages, and seers in Ugarit / Ignacio Marquez Rowe. The Aramaic tradition : Ahikar / Ingo Kottsieper -- Scribes, sages, and seers in First Temple Israel. Scribes, sages, and seers in the First Temple / Katharine Dell -- Scribes, sages, and seers in Second Temple Judah. The authors of Job and their historical and social setting / Konrad Schmid. Wisdom as a hermeneutical key to the book of Psalms / Manfred Oeming. Ezra, priest and scribe / Reinhard G. Kratz. The social world of Ecclesiastes / Choon-Leong Seow. The sociological significance of the scribe as the teacher of wisdom in Ben Sira / Friederich V. Reiterer -- Scribes, sages, and seers in the Greek and Roman empires. The sage behind the Wisdom of Solomon / Michael Kolarcik. Seers as mantic sages in Jewish apocalyptic (Daniel and Enoch) / Andreas Bedenbender. Sages and scribes in the Qumran literature / Armin Lange -- Scribes, sages, and seers and the transition to rabbinic Judaism. Sages, scribes, and seers in rabbinic Judaism / Gunter Stemberger.